A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Washington D.C.'s most famous pianist, composer, and bandleader still tickles the ivories outside Howard Theater.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

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

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

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

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

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

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