A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

The naval commander’s proudest moment in battle is memorialized in this unique tomb at Arlington Cemetery.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.