Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A private residence adorned with a gorgeous mural dedicated to the buzzing insect.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

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

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

Literal "money laundering."

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

A replica of the famous memorial statue at the Normandy American Cemetery hides in an office building in downtown D.C.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

The only tennis court that falls under the jurisdiction of the central bank.

After his presidency, George Washington planned to live only a few blocks from the Capitol building.

A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.