Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

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

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.