Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

Inside Crosswicks Creek Park resides an estate chronicling 200 years of history.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

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

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

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

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

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

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

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

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