Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

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

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

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

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

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

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.