Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

A less famous, short-lived meeting spot of the Inklings.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This cathedral's stained-glass patchwork of psychedelic colors and shapes was put in place long before the swinging 60s.

This gravestone and its inscription inspired a movement that has spanned generations and saved countless lives.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

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

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.