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

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

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

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.

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

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

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.

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

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

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

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

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

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

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

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.