Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

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

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

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

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

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

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."