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This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.