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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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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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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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Navy Yard Railroad Gun
One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.
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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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The K-9 of the Korean War Veterans Memorial
Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.
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Serenity Statue
This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.
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Owney the Postal Dog
A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.
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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega
The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.
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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 Portrait Monument
Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.
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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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The Big Chair
A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.
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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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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
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Renwick Gallery
The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.
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Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
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Peacock Room
This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.
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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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Inside the Capitol Dome
The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.
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Dumbarton Oaks
The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.
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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.
