Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

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

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.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

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

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.