Washington, D.C.
Tivoli's Astounding Magic Supply
The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Guglielmo Marconi Memorial
Dedicated to the man who created the first radio wave communication system.
Washington, D.C.
Murals at Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Library
In an alcove of this historic library, you can find murals painted in the 1930s by an artist who went on to create some of Disney's most iconic animated films.
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Hall of Fake Presidents
Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.
Washington, D.C.
Harewood Lodge
One of the first Second Empire-style buildings constructed in North America.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Observatory Library
A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.
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USNO Master Clock
The most accurate timepiece in the world.
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Dahlgren Iron Cross
A purported 17th-century religious artifact with noteworthy associations to Catholic history in the U. S.
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Riggs Library
A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.
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Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle Ruins
A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.
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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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FBI Spy House
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
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Uncle Beazley the Triceratops
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.
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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Jean Jules Jusserand Memorial
An obscure federal monument honors the French diplomat who served as Ambassador to the U.S. during WWI.
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Rockefeller Mansion in Rock Creek Park
This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.
Washington, D.C.
Peirce Mill Spy Station
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Stafford, Virginia
Hogan's Alley
The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.
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Slowe-Burrill House
Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.
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Brooks Mansion
This historic building is now home to the Public Access Corporation for the District of Columbia.
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Evelyn Y. Davis's Gravestone
A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States.
Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.
Defense Intelligence Agency Museum
Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.
Washington, D.C.
Clean Rivers Tunnel
An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.
