Places Edited by IgFan

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.