A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

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

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.