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A Bibliophile's Dream.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

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

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

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

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

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

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

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

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

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.