Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

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

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.