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

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

This striking structure is the Socialist-modernist centerpiece of a former Soviet spa resort.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

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

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

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

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.