The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The world's largest wooden structure.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.