This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

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

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

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

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Stone Age solar temple is aligned with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.