A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

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

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.

This historic building is now home to the Public Access Corporation for the District of Columbia.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Scrap material from around Eritrea finds a new life at this outdoor market, where upcycling is a lifestyle.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.