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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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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega
The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.
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Georgetown's Haunted Halcyon House
This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.
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Chinatown Barnes Dance
The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.
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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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NIST Newton Apple Tree
A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.
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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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Congressional Cemetery
The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.
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Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.
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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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Southwest Duck Pond
This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.
Permanently Closed
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Site of the Knickerbocker Disaster
You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.
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Watergate Steps
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
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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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Ruins of the Columbian Cannon Foundry
These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.
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The Portrait Monument
Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.
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The Big Chair
A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.
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The Mary Surratt Boarding House
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
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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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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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Titanic Memorial
This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."
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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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Tudor Place
A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.
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Zero Milestone
A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.
