Washington, D.C.
Hinckley Hilton President's Walk
A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.
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Washington, D.C.
American University Experiment Station
The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.
Washington, D.C.
Holodomor Memorial
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
Washington, D.C.
FDR's Bomb Shelter
The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.
Washington, D.C.
Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II
An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.
Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.
Inside the Capitol Dome
The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.
Washington, D.C.
The Old Patent Model Museum
During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.
Washington, D.C.
FBI Spy House
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Solvang, California
OstrichLand USA
Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.
Los Angeles, California
Riverside Roundabout
An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.
Jinhua, China
Tongzi Dan: Boy Eggs
Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Twin Lakes Capitoline Wolf
Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.
West Alexandria, Ohio
Dadsville
This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.
Newberry Springs, California
Rock-A-Hoola Waterpark
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Los Angeles, California
Stay On Main Hotel
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Old Faithful Geyser
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Stamford, Connecticut
Walker Library of The History of Human Imagination
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.
Permanently Closed
Banning, California
The Museum of Pinball
The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.
Los Angeles, California
St. Vincent Court
A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.
Denver, Colorado
Linger Eatuaries
Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Bad Art
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
White Post, Virginia
Dinosaurland
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Permanently Closed
Fort Collins, Colorado
Swetsville Zoo
This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.
