Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

A memorial to an ill-fated Arctic expedition pursued by the U.S. Navy.

This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

A small park honors the legendary Ukrainian poet.

The only female equestrian statue in Washington, D.C. is a 15th-century French heroine.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

A newspaper building that made radio history.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

New York City's first Modernist house.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.