Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

A secret greenspace hides atop a Capitol parking garage.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

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

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

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