The rest is history

A walking tour of DC, a big box store that started in a bar—frankly, I just like this stuff. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

There’s a pizza place at 1335 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Washington D.C. that used to be a French restaurant.

A plaque on the wall will tell you that in 1985, height of the Cold War, a KGB spy who had defected to the West was eating dinner there with his handlers.

He left to use the bathroom, snuck out a window, and ran off to return to the Soviets—leaving the CIA wondering if he’d ever really been a true defector to begin with.

There’s a Chinese restaurant at 604 H Street NW called (not kidding), the Wok ’n Roll.

It’s the same 3-story building that was home to the Mary Surratt Boarding House in the 1860s, which is where the assassins who killed Abraham Lincoln met to conspire.

This is one of the things I used to love about living in DC: almost every address has history.

Walk across the Key Bridge in Rosslyn, it’s not far, and you’ll find the site of a former parking garage where Bob Woodward used to meet with Deep Throat.

Or head to 1401 Pennsylvania Ave N.W., site of the Willard Hotel, whi…