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Chicago, Illinois
Stained Glass at Navy Pier
A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Chicago, Illinois
Crown Fountain
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Chicago, Illinois
Palmer House Hilton
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Washington, D.C.
Hinckley Hilton President's Walk
A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.
Bethesda, Maryland
Congressional Country Club
Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.
Venice, Italy
St. Mark's Lost Third Column
Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.
Washington, D.C.
Russian Ambassador's Residence
Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.
Washington, D.C.
Embassy Gulf Service Center
Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.
Washington, D.C.
Bare-Chested George Washington
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.
Knife Edge
Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.
Laurel, Maryland
On the Brink
A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Peabody Library
It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”
Washington, D.C.
D.C. War Memorial
An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.
Washington, D.C.
Man Controlling Trade
A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Aqueduct Castle Gatehouse
A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?
District of Columbia
The Winfield Scott Memorial
The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.
Washington, D.C.
The Lockkeeper's House
A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.
Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Allegheny County Belt System
Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.
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Washington, D.C.
The Unabomber's Cabin
It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
Bethesda, Maryland
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.
Washington, D.C.
Capitol Bollards
The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.
Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina
Charleston Tea Garden
The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.
