Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.