The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

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

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

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

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

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

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

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.