Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

Canada's oldest sugar maple has been growing since around 1500.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

They sort through millions of dollars worth of diplomatic gifts on behalf of the government.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.