The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.