The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

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

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

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

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

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