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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Cuban-American Friendship Urn
The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.
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D.C. War Memorial
An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.
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Watergate Steps
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
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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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The Lockkeeper's House
A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.
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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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Willard Hotel
Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”
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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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National Building Museum
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
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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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Washington Coliseum
A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.
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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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The Dupont Underground
Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.
Permanently Closed
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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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Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
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Watergate Gas Station
This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.
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Temperance Fountain
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
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Vigilant Firehouse
‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’
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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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Bare-Chested George Washington
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
Permanently Closed
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Yenching Palace
The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.
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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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National Capitol Columns
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
