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

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

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

America's first federal monument.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.