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Washington DC

Past the monuments, Dupont Circle and the rowhouse blocks around it run a century of unglamorous neighborhood institutions.

The National Mall is built for a single pass-through visit. The residential grid around it — Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan, Logan Circle — is where DC actually lives, with a handful of inns and dining rooms that have outlasted several generations of the city's politics.

Washington DC