Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

This historic boathouse was constructed using salvaged lumber from burned barns.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

Garments from across the globe call this hidden gem home.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

Along with used instruments, this pawn shop has pieces of music history on display.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

This small pedestal marks the spot of the first lot of land sold in Alexandria, Virginia in 1749.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.