The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

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

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

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

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

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.