A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

An overlooked tribute to one of the most important peace deals in American history.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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

A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

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

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.