An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

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

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.