At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

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.