A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

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

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

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

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.