The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

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

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Yo, Adrian!

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

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

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

This former railway facility is the oldest in Slovenia, and now houses a museum showcasing the history of steam locomotives.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

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

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

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.