Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

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

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

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

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

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

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.