Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.

A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

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

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

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

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.