Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

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

This pharmacist and his patient greet visitors to the National Community Pharmacists Association.

America's first federal monument.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

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

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.