When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

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

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.