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A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

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

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

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.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

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

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

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

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

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

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