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This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

The whole world in one water tank.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.