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Potomac Park Flood Levee
This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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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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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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Water Gate at the Watergate Complex
Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.
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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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Gun Barrel Fence
This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.
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Carousel on the National Mall
Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.
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Willard Hotel
Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”
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Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.
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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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Chinatown Barnes Dance
The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.
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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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Southwest Duck Pond
This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.
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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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Watergate Steps
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.
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Bare-Chested George Washington
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
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USNO Master Clock
The most accurate timepiece in the world.
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Uncle Beazley the Triceratops
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.
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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega
The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.
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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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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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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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The Big Chair
A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.
