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

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

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

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

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.