Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.