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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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Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
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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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D.C.'s Underground Bald Cypress Fossils
Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.
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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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Holt House
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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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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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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Grace Hopper's Bug
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
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The Unabomber's Cabin
It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
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Kilroy Was Here
There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.
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Mount Zion Cemetery's Underground Railroad Shelter
People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.
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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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Sergeant Stubby
The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.
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Dumbarton Oaks
The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.
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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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East Potomac Park Mini Golf
The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.
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Tudor Place
A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.
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Library of Congress Card Catalog
A nostalgic bibliographic gem.
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National Building Museum
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
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Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.
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Riggs Library
A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.
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The Capitol Stones
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
