Places rmricks Wants to Go

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

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.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

Literal "money laundering."

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

100 years later, they're still down there.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.