This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

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

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

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

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

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

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

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

100 years later, they're still down there.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

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

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.