Okay, a staircase might not seem like the most exciting film location to visit, but these stairs were so notable in the 1970s supernatural horror film, The Exorcist, that they are to receive a plaque on October 30, 2015, roughly 45 years after the film was released. The famous scene that was filmed on the steps was the death of Father Karras.

While films like Independence Day may be most known for scenes of utter destruction in the nation's capital, it was the 1950s classic, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, that really helped the doomsday ball start rolling. Aliens, space scientists, what more do you need?

To film the famous White House explosion scene in Independence Day, the filmmakers created a 10-foot-by-5-foot model of the iconic building. It took a week to plan the detonation with 40 explosive charges.

Foggy Bottom's Watergate complex was the site where The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the Watergate scandal, which later led to the resignation of President Nixon and future uses of the suffix -gate in relation to scandals. The mid-1970s film, All the President's Men, features the process on how the two reporters investigated the scandal.

While the Metro location mapped here is Dupont Circle, the first episode of the second season of House of Cards actually featured the Cathedral Heights Metro (which doesn't exist, in case you didn't know). Regardless, there's no way a person can speak about Washington, D.C. film history without giving a nod to this political drama. The scene featured the death of a major character and was filmed at the Charles Street subway stop in Baltimore.

To filibuster or not to filibuster, that is the question. It was in the late-1930s film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, that Senator Jefferson Smith successfully filibustered a bill for 24 hours or so in the U.S. Capitol that would have permitted construction of a dam on the site of his proposed boys camp. The political comedy-drama went on to win 11 Academy Award nominations and win one for Best Original Story. In 1989, the film was added to the U.S. National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

It was in the National Archives that historian and all-around cool guy Benjamin Franklin Gates (played by Curbed's Hollywood favorite, Nic Cage) understood that the only way to save the Declaration of Independence was to steal it. The next time you step foot in this iconic building, be careful. Your inclination to follow in Nic Cage's footsteps might not end up with gold and getting the girl; we're talking jail time.

For fans of the mid-1990s film, Forrest Gump, the scene at the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool can still bring tears in our eyes as we remember when Forrest runs through the pool to meet his love, Jenny. You run to her, Forrest. Run, Forrest. Run.