February 28, 2024

Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)

38 minutes

EPISODE 105 | Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)

Guest: Fayge Horesh, co-creator, writer and host of the D Listers of History podcast, and licensed tour guide

Washington D.C. is an interesting place and, like many cities, has some oddities. We take a look at some of the things around town that might not be obvious at first glance, like (not-so secret) tunnels, ghost cats, strange clocks, hollow domes, street plans, statues, snipers, protected trees, food trucks and more.

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SECTIONS

03:42 - Making the past accessible, Daniel of Beccles, Father Divine, traces of history, Deep Throat in Rosslyn

06:35 - Pierre L'Enfant's plans, Masonic symbols, quadrants, a hidden pentagram, Benjamin Banneker's thighs, DC once had canals (gross ones)

14:03 - Street plan as weather control machine yet the weather is terrible, underground tunnels (one open to the public), the Ghost Cat, no sitting on the floor, the Capitol Dome is hollow

21:37 - The Women's Portrait Monument, so many statues

23:43 - Snipers and other security, food truck a-go-go

28:33 - The NIST Newton Apple Tree in International Park, don't linger in front of the former Iran Embassy, clocks and time in Friendship Heights, conspiracy theories are distractions, Chinatown has very few Chinese people

36:55 - Explore your city and embrace the weirdness

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

D Listers of History podcast

’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode

The world of Daniel of Beccles D Listers episode

Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles article

A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C. in Smithsonian

Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant on the Virginia Museum of History & Culture

Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer Who the Presidents Couldn't Ignore on the White House Historical Association

Capitol Building Tunnel System

What lies beneath DC? Many more tunnels than you might think!

The D.C. Underground Atlas

Demon Cat: the tale of a wanderlust feline ghost

Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.

Does The Demon Cat Still Haunt Washington's Capitol Hill?

Bells, Buzzers, Clicks and Clocks

Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code on Atlas Obscura

Capitol Illumination

Inside the Capitol Dome

Hidden Congress: An Alternative Tour of the U.S. Capitol

Apotheosis of Washington

Leaders in Equality: The Portrait Monument

Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

The Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 Years

How Security Measures In Washington, D.C., Have Changed Since 9/11

12 Best Washington DC Food Trucks on Female Foodie

Find food trucks in DC on Roaming Hunger

What happened to D.C.’s food trucks? The answer says much about the ‘new normal.’

NIST Newton Apple Tree

Where To Find The Most Unusual Trees In D.C.

After the arena came, the Asian population of Washington's Chinatown shrank

269 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Washington, D.C.

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