Beatles historian Bruce Spizer takes us back 60 years ago, when The Beatles performed for 8,000 screaming fans at the Washington Coliseum.

In his new book, author Shahan Mufti recounts in rich detail the complex and intertwined local and international events that led to the 1977 three-day siege by a dozen Muslim gunmen.

Raised in Northeast D.C., mid-19th century writer E.D.E.N. Southworth outsold her male contemporaries, but her work has largely been ignored.

Among the notable stops you might recognize? Howard University Law School, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, and the Wilson Building.

What if Metro’s Red Line took passengers all the way to Mount Pleasant, or if the 50 and 52 routes up and down 14th Street NW were subways rather than buses?

After more than a century of efforts aimed at clearing them, alleys have survived in the District. But many of today’s incarnations are a far cry from the rat-infested dwellings where tuberculosis spread like wildfire.

D.C. is getting a walk of fame.

“There are so many unique stories about Washington that most people don’t know about.”

For its 35th anniversary, the venue has been transformed into a jam-packed trip down memory lane.

Take a cultural time warp to D.C. in the ’80s.