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Annie's Paramount Steakhouse
This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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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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The National Gallery's Art Materials Collection
The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.
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Bare-Chested George Washington
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
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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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Holodomor Memorial
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
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Holt House
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.
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The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
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Grace Hopper's Bug
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
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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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Sergeant Stubby
The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.
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Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe
A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.
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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
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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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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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National Building Museum
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
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Albert Einstein Bronze Statue
The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.
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FBI Spy House
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
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The Capitol Stones
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
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Culture House
A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
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Catacombs of Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
Isle La Motte, Vermont
Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve
Journey through various trails to discover a land before time along the Chazy Fossil Reef.
