Edgar Bar and Restaurant

Described by President Truman as "Washington's second best address", the hotel boasts nearly a century's worth of glittery and clandestine history.

Once the Soviet Embassy, the Pullman House has been the Russian ambassador's embassy for several years and was one of the places Julius and Ethel Rosenberg met with their handler.

Civil War Admiral Farragut was famed for for seizing a key Confederate seaport and declared of the mines blocking his fleet’s advance: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

This long-range reconnaissance aircraft was developed as a black project from the Lockheed A-12.

The ill-fated Air France Concorde was initially considered one of the safest aircrafts in the world.

This famous hotel is where Clinton aide Dick Morris made scandal history with call girl Sherry Rowlands.