The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

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

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

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

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.