A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

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

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Here be dragons.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

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

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

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

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.