Washington Trip

24 Places

Washington, D.C.

National Capitol Columns

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

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International Spy Museum

Home to items never before seen by the public.

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Space Window at the Washington National Cathedral

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

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The Capitol Stones

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

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Zero Milestone

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

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Washington Mini Monument

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

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Catacombs of Washington, D.C.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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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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National Building Museum

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

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Tudor Place

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

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Mount Zion Cemetery's Underground Railroad Shelter

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega

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

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Watergate Steps

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

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Treasury Department Cash Vault

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

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Bare-Chested George Washington

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

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District of Columbia Center Point

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

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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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The Cairo

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

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Navy Yard Railroad Gun

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

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Gun Barrel Fence

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

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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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Washington Aqueduct Castle Gatehouse

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

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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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