Places JackalopeTamer Wants to Go

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

A secret greenspace hides atop a Capitol parking garage.

A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.