Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

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

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.