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1600 M St NW
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800 F St NW
Someone who watched every spy thriller in lockdown and actually wants to understand tradecraft walks in here and loses an afternoon to the gadgets, the history, the scenarios that ask what you'd actually do. It's interactive enough to feel like something beyond looking at displays behind glass.
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601 N Manchester St
History buffs and railroad enthusiasts find themselves in a genuine turn-of-the-century junction point, where you can stand where passengers once transferred toward mountain getaways over a century ago.
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4155 Linnean Ave NW
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If you're quietly serious about decorative arts—especially Russian imperial treasures and those impossible Fabergé eggs—this former tycoon's mansion rewards the kind of close looking that takes hours. The orchid greenhouse alone justifies the trip.