Landmarks in Washington DC
14 landmarks to discover with Bad Historian in Washington DC.
Ford's Theatre
Ford's Theatre.
National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum.
National Archives
The National Archives.
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture.
National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History.
National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History.
Smithsonian Castle
The Smithsonian Castle.
The F-B-I Building
Look at this building.
The Georgetown Dead Drop
See that mailbox? The blue one.
The Soviet Embassy
Look up the hill.
The White House
The White House.
The Willard Hotel
The Willard Hotel.
Watergate Complex
The Watergate Complex.
Washington DC Audio Experiences
Visit these landmarks and more on a self-guided audio experience.
Dead Letters and Cursed Gems
Seven museums on the National Mall, each hiding something absurd. A flag stitched on a brewery floor by a widow and a thirteen-year-old. A cursed diamond mailed for two dollars and forty-four cents. A Leonardo da Vinci smuggled in a suitcase under an FBI codename. A college student who got a C and amended the Constitution. And the most important airplane in history, exiled to London over a grudge.
Spies, Lies & Dead Drops
How Washington became the most paranoid city on Earth — and earned it. Walk from Ford's Theatre to the Soviet Embassy through the ugliest building in America, a hotel that smuggled a president, the most bugged address on Earth, an apartment complex where five men got caught with consecutive serial numbers on their bills, a spy's mailbox in Georgetown, and a tunnel that cost hundreds of millions and produced nothing.
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