According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.