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

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

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

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

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

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

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

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

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

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

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

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

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

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.