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Inaugural Parade Center Line
A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Site of the Union Station Train Crash
A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.
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D.C. War Memorial
An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.
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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.
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Watergate Gas Station
This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.
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Embassy Gulf Service Center
Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.
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First FDR Memorial
One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.
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Russian Ambassador's Residence
Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.
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The Sun Building
This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.
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Capital Transit Co. Streetcar Barn
Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.
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Water Gate at the Watergate Complex
Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.
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The K-9 of the Korean War Veterans Memorial
Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.
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Carousel on the National Mall
Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.
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Old Stone House
The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.
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Willard Hotel
Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”
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Temperance Fountain
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
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Hecht Company Warehouse
Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.
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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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Holodomor Memorial
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
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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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District of Columbia Center Point
A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.
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Capitol Building Tunnel System
Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.
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Bare-Chested George Washington
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega
The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.
