Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

This miniature museum is home to a vast array of insects.

A unique collection of more than 250 rocks and minerals located on a university campus.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

One of the last mosaic tile facades found in the city.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

Surrounded by traditional homes, this Tolkien-esque dwelling stands out on a quiet street in suburban Maryland.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.