The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

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

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.