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This sprawling district of federal offices and Smithsonian museums sits quietly between the Mall and the Channel, where bureaucracy and culture occupy the same concrete landscape. Government workers and museum-goers move through the same corridors, making it feel less like a tourist destination and more like the actual machinery of the city.
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