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

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

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

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

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

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

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

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.