A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

The historic home of an educator, abolitionist, activist, and poet.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

The former home of Lillian Evans Tibbs and her grandson, Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., whose prodigious contributions to music and art spanned more than 90 years.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

Washington D.C.'s most famous pianist, composer, and bandleader still tickles the ivories outside Howard Theater.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

The former home of the woman who successfully fought to integrate restaurants in Washington, D.C.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

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

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A local prank turned town icon.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.