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Godey Lime Kilns
A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.
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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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Serenity Statue
This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.
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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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Mary's Garden
An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.
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Treasury Department Cash Vault
Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.
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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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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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Alferd Packer Cannibal Plaque
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.
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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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Congressional Cemetery
The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.
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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 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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International Temple of the Order of the Eastern Star
Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.
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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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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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Grace Hopper's Bug
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
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Holt House
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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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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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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The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
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The Mary Surratt Boarding House
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
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The Cuban Embassy's Hemingway Bar
When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.
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The Unabomber's Cabin
It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
