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The Sun Building
This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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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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Churchill and Mandela Call and Response
When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.
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Baptist Alley
This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.
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National Cathedral Bell Tower
There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.
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Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II
An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.
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Daguerre Monument
Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.
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Gun Barrel Fence
This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.
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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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Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon
The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.
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Mary's Garden
An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.
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Arizona Avenue Trestle
The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.
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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NIST Newton Apple Tree
A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.
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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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Smithsonian Sushi Collection
Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.
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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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Holodomor Memorial
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
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International Temple of the Order of the Eastern Star
Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.
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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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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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Holt House
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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Fort DeRussy
A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.
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Sergeant Stubby
The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.
