Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

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

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

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

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

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

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

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

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

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.