Government

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

The controversial urban planner who designed Washington, D.C., was buried in Maryland, and can presently be found in Virginia.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations