This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

America's first public mental health facility.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

This historic boathouse was constructed using salvaged lumber from burned barns.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

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

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.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

A secret greenspace hides atop a Capitol parking garage.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

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

100 years later, they're still down there.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

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