Places calicobearcat Wants to Go

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Need a hardcopy of the 50-title Code of Federal Regulations? This is the place.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

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

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

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

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

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

The whole world in one water tank.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.