The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

A replica of the famous memorial statue at the Normandy American Cemetery hides in an office building in downtown D.C.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

Need a hardcopy of the 50-title Code of Federal Regulations? This is the place.

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

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

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

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

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.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

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