A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

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

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

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

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