A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

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

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

Garments from across the globe call this hidden gem home.

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

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

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

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

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

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

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

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

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

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.