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This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.

This small museum is dedicated to telling the 4,000-year story of Palestinian history, culture, and resistance.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

100 years later, they're still down there.