A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

For posterity, a singular achievement: 3,780 hours of dancing.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.