Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

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

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.