The building's fluid, wavelike walls are a true feat of architectural ingenuity.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

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

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

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

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

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

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.