Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

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

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

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

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

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

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

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

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

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

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

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

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.