She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

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

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

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

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

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.