Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

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

This building was once the most magnificent mansion in Nafplio.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The smallest covered bridge in Maryland.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

This post-Ottoman era church in Athens was built by locals to serve the residents of Anafiotica

A former royal garden with lush surroundings in the heart of the city.

This church is dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.