A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

The 2,000-year-old pieces of metal are an ancient soldier's military discharge papers.

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

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

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

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.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.