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Arizona Avenue Trestle
The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.
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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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Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe
A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.
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NIST Newton Apple Tree
A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.
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United Brick Corporation Ruins
Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.
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Owney the Postal Dog
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.
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Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.
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The Big Chair
A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.
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Grace Hopper's Bug
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
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Peirce Mill Spy Station
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
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The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
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National Archives Vault
An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.
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Holt House
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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The Mutilated Currency Division
An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.
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Rockefeller Mansion in Rock Creek Park
This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.
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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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The Cuban Embassy's Hemingway Bar
When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.
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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
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House of the Temple
This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.
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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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Frederick Douglass’s House, Cedar Hill
The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.
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Tudor Place
A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.
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National Building Museum
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
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Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle Ruins
A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.
