Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

They sort through millions of dollars worth of diplomatic gifts on behalf of the government.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

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

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

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

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

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

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

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

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.