Daily lunch spot for many of Washington, D.C.'s cab drivers.

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

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

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

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

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

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

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.

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

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

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

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

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

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

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.