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

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

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

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

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

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

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.