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Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Sip colonial-era cocktails at this monthly recreation of a 1740 watering hole.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

Find your state fair food favorites all year long.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

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

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

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Daily lunch spot for many of Washington, D.C.'s cab drivers.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

A historic cemetery with unique artwork, a Civil War fort, and also happens to be the site of the Battle of Bladensburg.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

George Washington once stopped by this house for dinner.