An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

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

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

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

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

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

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

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

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.