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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

America's first federal monument.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.