What else are you doing with your afternoon?

Inspired by Christoph Niemann’s kitschy ode to New York in the Times Magazine in 2009 that inevitably went viral, it was a matter of time before the National Building Museum would try its hand at the same project — considering excess of LEGOs that are probably lying around from its current exhibition.

Sure LEGO masterpieces can be complicated and epic, showing of the hundreds of man-hours that can be spent/wasted on catching the most minute of details, but take a look at this gallery several iconic D.C. items, captured in a piece or two. Some may be a bit abstract, such as the escalators, but others, like Metro Center diagram and D.C.’s stars and bars, should be dead giveaways.