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Battery Kemble Park & Glover Archbold Park
Glover is a sinuous, winding 190-acre park, extending from Van Ness St NW in the Tenleytown area down to the western border of Georgetown University. Further west, skinny Battery Kemble Park separates the wealthy Foxhall and Palisades neighborhoods of far northwestern DC. Managed by the National Park Service, the park preserves the site of a little two-gun battery that helped defend western DC against Confederate troops during the Civil War.
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Marine Barracks
The 'Eighth and Eye Marines' are on largely ceremonial duty at the nation's oldest Marine Corps post. This post is home to the Marine Corps Band, once headed by John Philip Sousa, king of the military march, who was born nearby at 636 G St SE. On Friday evenings in summer you can watch a two-hour ceremonial drill parade featuring the band, the drum and bugle corps, the silent drill team and the mascot bulldog.
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National Public Radio
One of America's favorite radio news outlets, old-fashioned NPR (not too long ago they were producing newscasts by splicing reels of audio with a razor blade and tape instead of using the modern, less injury-prone, digital method) offers tours of its head offices. Visitors see the satellite control center, desks for national, foreign, science and arts news and the studios where shows like Morning Edition and All Things Considered are recorded.
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