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Watergate Steps
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
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Starship Enterprise NCC-1701
The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega
The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.
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NASA Full Scale Wind Tunnel Propeller
While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.
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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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Chinatown Barnes Dance
The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.
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U.S. Mint Coin Store
Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.
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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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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.
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Rayburn House Office Building
One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."
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Culture House
A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
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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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East Potomac Park Mini Golf
The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.
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Library Of Congress Gutenberg Bible
One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.
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Library of Congress Card Catalog
A nostalgic bibliographic gem.
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The First Map of the United States
This map, on display in the Library of Congress, and one of only seven known to exist, is the very first map of the United States.
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Library of Congress Book Conveyor Tunnel
A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.
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Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map
This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."
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Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.
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Summerhouse
A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
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James C. Dent House
Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.
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The Transportation Walk
Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.
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USS Balao Conning Tower
Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.
