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Glenwood Cemetery's Chainsaw Sculptures
The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.
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Sonny Bono Memorial Park
A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.
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Southwest Duck Pond
This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.
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Alferd Packer Cannibal Plaque
A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.
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Serenity Statue
This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.
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Watergate Steps
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
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Uncle Beazley the Triceratops
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.
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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega
The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.
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Lincoln Book Tower
A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.
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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
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Holt House
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
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Starship Enterprise NCC-1701
The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
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Kilroy Was Here
There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.
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The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
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Renwick Gallery
The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.
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Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
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Culture House
A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
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Space Window at the Washington National Cathedral
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
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The Brewmaster's Castle
This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.
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The Dupont Underground
Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Eyrie House Ruins
The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Dinosaur Footprints of Holyoke
A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
