The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.