D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

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

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

One of the oldest Catholic churches in the U.S., situated just east of Gettysburg.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.