A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

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

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.