An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

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

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

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

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

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

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

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

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.