Whether one is a visitor or a long-time resident, go on a scavenger hunt through this beautiful, interesting, and lavishly landscaped city. Explore all four quadrants, into the neighborhoods and beyond the monuments in search of unusual venues, artifacts and art, such as Einstein's surround-sound; the pantry and kitchen of a great estate; gifts to the people of the United States and monuments to great musicians. Discoveries may be hidden or even in plain sight. There are treasures everywhere.

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Andrea Seiger is a world and domestic traveler who has lived in Washington DC for 30 plus years and has worked in nearly every business involved in tourism and hospitality. When asked how she knows so much about DC, she responds, "I work in tourism, and it's my business to know my city. And I love showing people who live here just how much there is to learn about our home town." She lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the height of the Disco Era, has traveled thousands of miles on the Mayan Route of Mexico and loves to road trip around the Mid-Atlantic US and beyond. Her travel bucket list includes visiting all 50 US states; every country in the continent of the Americas and all of the New 7 Wonders of the World, the Galapagos, Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat. She is pretty far along on the list. Eager traveling feet get her out an about as often as possible, whether on the streets of DC or somewhere else in the world.

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Part of the international 111 Places series, provides the ultimate insider's guide to Washington, DC. Now in its 5th edition.

Step away from the traditional highlights of the city of innovators, great benefactors, artists, presidents and hucksters to discover innumerable interesting and unknown sites, artifacts and other treats in Washington, DC. Visit places hiding in plain sight, that may go unnoticed or simply be unknown to long-time residents and visitors alike. Play a round of miniature golf among the cherry trees. Buy original art works out of a vintage cigarette machine. Catch a show at one of the refurbished theatres where Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington used to gig. Commune with the Godfather of Go-Go music in his memorial park. Get away from the tourists and peace out by walking a labyrinth alongside the Potomac River. Try a salad made of indigenous root vegetables at a Native American café.

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50 States Bike Route Cycle through every state in a single day | 10 56 Signers Memorial Chill out with the Founding Fathers | 12 African American Civil War Museum Telling the ancestors’ stories Marquett, a young | 14 Albert Einstein Memorial I myself should be dead already but I’m still here | 16 American Geophysical Union Building An architectural and engineering playground | 18 Anacostia Park Roller Rink This is how we roll | 20 Art-o-Mat Art is a much better addiction | 22 Arts Walk Art and poetry with beer | 24 Bald Eagle Nest Mr. President and LOTUS among the azaleas | 26 Bartholdi Fountain The fountain cousin of the Statue of Liberty | 28 Bathyscaphe Trieste Dive to the deepest part of the ocean | 30 The Big Chair A neighborhood symbol | 32 Black Cat Alt music and family tradition | 34 Bladensburg Dueling Grounds Where gentlemen killed each other | 36 Booth’s Derringer Assassination at the theater | 38 Boundary Stone NW6 One of the oldest boundary markers of city limits | 40 The Canterbury Pulpit Martin Luther King’s last sermon | 42 Capital Pool Checkers Crown Me! | 44 Capital Slave Pens Twelve years a slave in the cradle of freedom | 46 Caruso Florist Not just any flower shop | 48 Cedar Hill Frederick Douglass had the best views | 50 Ching Ching Cha Taking tea in the Chinese tradition | 52 Chuck Brown Park A shrine to the Godfather of Go-Go | 54 Colonel Dahlgren’s Leg Buried with full military honors | 56 Crypt of James Smithson Laid to rest in his legacy | 58 Culture House DC Abandoned church becomes an art centerpiece | 60 Da Vinci’s de’ Benci She flew in a first-class window seat | 62 Dance Place This is dance central | 64 DC Fire and EMS Museum City history through a firefighter’s lens | 66 Department of the Interior Murals Painting our American lives | 68 Dupont Circle Fountain Hangin’ with the Rear Admiral | 70 Dupont Underground From tracks to treasure | 72 Earliest Cherry Trees They survived blight and keep on blooming | 74 Electronic Superhighway Neon ode to the American road trip | 76 Evalyn Walsh McLean House Where the Hope Diamond owner spent her teens | 78 Exorcist Steps & Stories Terrifying and head-spinningly steep | 80 FDR Desk Memorial A minor yet mighty presidential memorial | 82 Fort Stevens Civil War skirmish in the capital | 84 Franciscan Monastery Catacombs, martyrs, and a mummified child | 86 Frank Kameny Gravesite Gay rights pioneer is not buried here | 88 Gallaudet University The epicenter of the deaf world | 90 Game Fish Look at what we hooked! | 92 George Mason Memorial A neglected Founding Father | 94 Georgetown Flea Market Upscale picking | 96 Georgetown Labyrinth Contemplation along the waterfront | 98 Gorby Intersection Gorbachev stops traffic and thaws the Cold War | 100 Harriet Tubman’s Shawl Gift from a queen to a fearless warrior for freedom | 102 Hillwood Breakfast Taste testing with Marjorie Merriweather Post | 104 Howard Theatre Where the greats have played | 106 International Spy Museum Spy pigeons and their covert critter colleagues | 108 Iron Gate Restaurant A young hooker takes down a Soviet defector | 110 JFK Thank You Plaque With gratitude from frozen newsmen | 112 John Philip Sousa Home Marching with the spirits of great Washingtonians | 114 Julia Child’s Kitchen If you’re afraid of butter, use cream | 116 Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens An age-old dance of wind, water, and land | 118 Key Bridge Boathouse Paddling on the Potomac | 120 KGB Double Agent Escape Where spy met spy | 122 Khalil Gibran Memorial Beauty shall rise with the dawn | 124 LeDroit Park A historic bastion of African-American influencers | 126 Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Assassination on Embassy Row | 128 Lincoln Life Masks A civil war can change the face of a man | 130 Lincoln’s Cottage He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation here | 132 The Longest Protest Civic action facing the White House | 134 Longest City Bus Tour The $2 city tour | 136 The Magic Tree Box A fairy world at your feet | 138 Maine Avenue Fish Market Crabs, oysters, and fried fish sammiches | 140 Mansion on O Street Wonder, through secret doorways | 142 The Market Lunch Blue bucks for breakfast | 144 Mexican Cultural Institute Stairway to vibrant colors and rich traditions | 146 Millennium Stage Free entertainment 365 days a year Nearly every | 148 Missing Soldiers Office Fate lent a hand – and a letter – to save history | 150 Mitsitam Café It means, “Let’s eat!” | 152 MLK Time Capsule A skateboarder never notices | 154 Mount Zion Cemetery A stop on the Underground Railroad | 156 Mumbo Sauce at Yum’s The foodstuff of urban legend | 158 New Hampshire Period Room A children’s attic playroom | 160 Newton’s Apple Tree From the roots of science history | 162 Oldest Mini-Golf Course The most important shot in golf is the next one | 164 Omni Shoreham Ghost Suite Apparition in residence | 166 Orphée Mural Marc Chagall’s mythical mosaic | 168 Owney the Railway Mascot The dog who traveled the world by mail transport | 170 Perry’s Drag Brunch Hello, Gorgeous! | 172 Peterbug Shoe Academy Not your average cobbler shop | 174 Planet Word Privies Flush with bathroom humor | 176 Prairie Dogs Cutest zoo animals, and natives too | 178 The President’s Walk The failed assassination of President Reagan | 180 Riggs Bank Building Money launderers to the dictators of the world | 182 Ripley Center Mural Illusions of an ancient city | 184 Rock Creek Park Hors…