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Arizona Avenue Trestle
The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Washington Monument Lightning Rod
The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.
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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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Godey Lime Kilns
A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.
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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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Chinatown Barnes Dance
The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.
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Serenity Statue
This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.
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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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Abandoned Drawbridge Control Room
The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.
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USNO Master Clock
The most accurate timepiece in the world.
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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Peirce Mill Spy Station
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
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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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Ruins of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site at Reservoir Park
An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.
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Holt House
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
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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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The Mary Surratt Boarding House
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
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Barbie Pond on Q Street
A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.
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The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
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Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
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Peacock Room
This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.
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Kilroy Was Here
There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.
