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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 205x135 mm, kaal: 490 g, 111 Illustrations, color
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  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Apr-2018
  • Kirjastus: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740802588
  • ISBN-13: 9783740802585
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 205x135 mm, kaal: 490 g, 111 Illustrations, color
  • Sari: 111 Places
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Apr-2018
  • Kirjastus: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740802588
  • ISBN-13: 9783740802585
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Step away from the traditional highlights of the city of innovators, great benefactors, artists, presidents and hucksters to discover innumerable interesting and unknown sites, artefacts and other treats in Washington, DC. Visit places that are unknown and hiding in plain sight, that may go unnoticed or simply be unknown, whether to a visitor or a long-time resident. 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 an American Indian salad made of obscure root vegetables in a café called Let's Eat.
111 Places
1 50 States Bike Route
Cycle through every state in a single day
10(2)
2 56 Signers Memorial
Chill out with the Founding Fathers
12(2)
3 African American Civil War Museum
Telling the ancestors' stories
14(2)
4 Albert Einstein Memorial
I myself should be dead already but I'm still here
16(2)
5 Anacostia Park Roller Rink
This is how we roll
18(2)
6 Art-o-Mat
Art is a much better addiction
20(2)
7 Arts Walk
Art and poetry with beer
22(2)
8 Bald Eagle Nest
Mr. President and The First Lady among the azaleas
24(2)
9 Bartholdi Fountain
The fountain cousin of the Statue of Liberty
26(2)
10 Bathyscaphe Trieste
Dive to the deepest part of the ocean
28(2)
11 The Big Chair
A neighborhood symbol
30(2)
12 Black Cat
Alt music and family tradition
32(2)
13 Bladensburg Dueling Grounds
Where gentlemen killed each other
34(2)
14 Blind Whino
Abandoned church becomes an art centerpiece
36(2)
15 Blooper Bathrooms
Reading headlines as you go
38(2)
16 Booth's Derringer
Assassination at the theater
40(2)
17 Boundary Stone NW6
One of the oldest boundary markers of city limits
42(2)
18 The Canterbury Pulpit
Martin Luther King's last sermon
44(2)
19 Capital Pool Checkers
Crown Me!
46(2)
20 Capital Slave Pens
Twelve years a slave in the cradle of freedom
48(2)
21 Cedar Hill
Frederick Douglass had the best views
50(2)
22 Ching Ching Cha
Taking tea in the Chinese tradition
52(2)
23 Chuck Brown Park
A shrine to the Godfather of Go-Go
54(2)
24 Colonel Dahlgren's Leg
Buried with full military honors
56(2)
25 Crypt of James Smithson
Laid to rest in his legacy
58(2)
26 Da Vinci's de' Benci
She flew in a first-class window seat
60(2)
27 Dance Place
This is dance central
62(2)
28 DC Fire and EMS Museum
City history through a firefighter's lens
64(2)
29 Department of the Interior Murals
Painting our American lives
66(2)
30 Dupont Circle Fountain
Hangin' with the Rear Admiral
68(2)
31 Dupont Underground
From tracks to treasure
70(2)
32 Earliest Cherry Trees
They survived blight and keep on blooming
72(2)
33 Electronic Superhighway
Neon ode to the American road trip
74(2)
34 Evalyn Walsh McLean House
Where the Hope Diamond owner spent her teens
76(2)
35 Exorcist Steps & Stories
Terrifying and head-spinningly steep
78(2)
36 FDR Desk Memorial
A minor yet mighty presidential memorial
80(2)
37 Fort Stevens
Civil War skirmish in the capital
82(2)
38 Franciscan Monastery
Catacombs, martyrs, and a mummified child
84(2)
39 Frank Kameny Gravesite
Gay rights pioneer is not buried here
86(2)
40 Game Fish
Look at what we hooked!
88(2)
41 George Mason Memorial
A neglected Founding Father
90(2)
42 Georgetown Flea Market
Upscale picking
92(2)
43 Georgetown Labyrinth
Contemplation along the waterfront
94(2)
44 Gorby Intersection
Gorbachev stops traffic and thaws the Cold War
96(2)
45 Green Hat Gin
Crafting gin named for the bootlegger to power
98(2)
46 Harriet Tubman's Shawl
Gift from a queen to a fearless warrior for freedom
100(2)
47 Hillwood Breakfast
Taste testing with Marjorie Merriweather Post
102(2)
48 Howard Theatre
Where the greats have played
104(2)
49 Iron Gate Restaurant
A young hooker takes down a Soviet defector
106(2)
50 JFK Thank You Plaque
With gratitude from frozen newsmen
108(2)
51 John Philip Sousa Home
Marching with the spirits of great Washingtonians
110(2)
52 Julia Child's Kitchen
If you're afraid of butter, use cream
112(2)
53 Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
An age-old dance of wind, water, and land
114(2)
54 Key Bridge Boathouse
Paddling on the Potomac
116(2)
55 KGB Double Agent Escape
Where spy met spy
118(2)
56 Khalil Gibran Memorial
Beauty shall rise with the dawn
120(2)
57 LeDroit Park
A historic bastion of African-American influencers
122(2)
58 Letelier-Moffitt Memorial
Assassination on Embassy Row
124(2)
59 Lincoln Life Masks
A civil war can change the face of a man
126(2)
60 Lincoln's Cottage
He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation here
128(2)
61 The Longest Protest
Civic action facing the White House
130(2)
62 Longest Urban Bus Route
The $2 city tour
132(2)
63 Maine Avenue Fish Market
Crabs, oysters, and fried fish sammiches
134(2)
64 Mansion on O Street
Wonder, through secret doorways
136(2)
65 The Market Lunch
Blue bucks for breakfast
138(2)
66 Mexican Cultural Institute
Stairway to vibrant colors and rich traditions
140(2)
67 Millennium Stage
Free entertainment 365 days a year
142(2)
68 Missing Soldiers Office
Fate lent a hand -- and a letter -- to save history
144(2)
69 Mitsitam Cafe
It means, "Let's eat!"
146(2)
70 MLK Time Capsule
A skateboarder never notices
148(2)
71 Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
A multi-lingual monkey puzzle
150(2)
72 Moongate Garden
Pass through to tranquility
152(2)
73 Mount Zion Cemetery
A stop on the Underground Railroad
154(2)
74 Mumbo Sauce at Yum's
The foodstuff of urban legend
156(2)
75 National Public Radio Tour
Inside the station and the Tiny Desk concerts
158(2)
76 New Hampshire Period Room
A children's attic playroom
160(2)
77 Newton's Apple Tree
From the roots of science history
162(2)
78 Oldest Mini-Golf Course
The most important shot in golf is the next one
164(2)
79 Orphee Mural
Marc Chagall's mythical mosaic
166(2)
80 Owney the Railway Mascot
The dog who traveled the world by mail transport
168(2)
81 Perry's Drag Brunch
Hello, Gorgeous!
170(2)
82 Peterbug Shoe Academy
Not your average cobbler shop
172(2)
83 Prairie Dogs
Cutest zoo animals, and natives too
174(2)
84 The President's Walk
The failed assassination of President Reagan
176(2)
85 The Public Option
On tap at the local pico brewery
178(2)
86 Riggs Bank Building
Money launderers to the dictators of the world
180(2)
87 Ripley Center Mural
Illusions of an ancient city
182(2)
88 Rock Creek Park Horse Center
Riding in the middle of the city
184(2)
89 Rock Creek Planetarium
Night sky in the park
186(2)
90 Scottish Rite Temple
Of Freemasons and the city
188(2)
91 Shakespeare's First Folios
The Bard's work on Capitol Hill
190(2)
92 The Shoe Room
We are the shoes. We are the last witnesses
192(2)
93 Shop Made in DC + Cafe
Bringing local makers to the fore
194(2)
94 Smokey Bear's Office
Only you can prevent forest fires
196(2)
95 The Spice Suite
There is no fun in selling bottles of fennel
198(2)
96 Sullivan's Toys
Children's mecca for young and old
200(2)
97 Theodore Roosevelt Island
A living memorial with a rich history
202(2)
98 Thomas Jefferson Papers
To be perused up close
204(2)
99 Transportation Walk
Round, round, get around, I get around
206(2)
100 Tricycle House
Riding up the wall
208(2)
101 True Reformer Hall
Duke Ellington's first paid gig
210(2)
102 Turkish Ambassador's Home
From bottle caps to jazz tradition
212(2)
103 Uline Arena
The Beatles played their first US concert here
214(2)
104 Union Station Sentries
What are they hiding behind those shields?
216(2)
105 The Uptown Theater
An art deco movie palace
218(2)
106 USNO Master Clock
Where accuracy really matters
220(2)
107 Vace Italian Deli
So much history, and that's just the lobby
222(2)
108 Waldseemuller Map
Birth certificate of the Americas
224(2)
109 The Willard Lobby
So much history, and that's just in the lobby
226(2)
110 Wright Flyer to the Moon
First in flight, first to the moon
228(2)
111 Zero Milestone
All roads lead from Washington
230
Andrea Seiger is a world and domestic traveller who has lived in Washington DC for 30 years and has worked in nearly every business involved in tourism and hospitality. When asked how she knows so much about DC, her response is "because I how she knows so much about DC her response is usually "because I work in tourism and it is my business to know my city." She lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the height of the Disco Era, has travelled 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, Macchu Picchu and Ankor Wat. She is pretty far along on the list. Itchy travelling feet get her out an about as often as possible, whether on the streets of DC or somewhere else in the world.