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C&O Boat Elevator Ruins
This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Hall of Fake Presidents
Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.
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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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Georgetown Waterfront
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
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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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'Cartwheel' Tower
Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.
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Water Gate at the Watergate Complex
Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.
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Washington Aqueduct Castle Gatehouse
A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?
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Washington Coliseum
A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.
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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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Washington Monument Marble Stripe
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
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Temperance Fountain
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
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Knife Edge
Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.
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Cher Ami
A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.
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Sharpshooter's Tree
A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.
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Sonny Bono Memorial Park
A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.
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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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Washington Monument Lightning Rod
The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.
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Historic Elevator at Potbelly
This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.
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FDR's Bomb Shelter
The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.
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Capitalsaurus Court
The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.
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The Cairo
This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.
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Fort Reno Park
The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.
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Serenity Statue
This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.
