Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

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

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

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

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

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

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

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.