Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

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

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.