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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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Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.
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Watergate Steps
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
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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 Columbian Cannon Foundry
These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.
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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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Holodomor Memorial
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
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Southwest Duck Pond
This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.
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USNO Master Clock
The most accurate timepiece in the world.
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The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
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Carnegie Library of Washington, D.C.
D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.
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Old Stone House
The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.
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International Temple of the Order of the Eastern Star
Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.
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Bare-Chested George Washington
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
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U.S. Naval Observatory Library
A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.
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The Mary Surratt Boarding House
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
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Grace Hopper's Bug
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
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Rockefeller Mansion in Rock Creek Park
This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.
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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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Peirce Mill Spy Station
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
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National Archives Vault
An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.
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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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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
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Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.
