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

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

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

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

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

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

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."