Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.