The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

How did the front of a supersonic jet make its way to a display case in a Kansas City yard?

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This Masonic lodge was the first major private building to be constructed in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

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

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.