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Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

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

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

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

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

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

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.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.