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

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

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

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

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

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

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

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

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

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