This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

After his presidency, George Washington planned to live only a few blocks from the Capitol building.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

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

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

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

This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.