This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

This indiscriminate collection of audio antiques is trying to preserve the history of the audio industry one vintage appliance at a time.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.