The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

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

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

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

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

Home to items never before seen by the public.

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

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The whole world in one water tank.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.