There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

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

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.