The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Built in 1945, this historic train station has a new lease on life with its baggage area serving as an event space.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

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

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

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

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.