No trace of this 1936 movie palace’s original interior remains, but the impressive, temple-like façade designed by John J. Zink still bears neo-Navajo inlays and an old chrome-framed marquee. Photo by Flickr user Rudi Riet.

Built in the grandiose Aztec Deco style in the late 1930s, this towering Cleveland Park apartment complex has served as home base for big names like Wallis Simpson and Hillary Clinton. Highlights include a curved, chrome-trimmed front overhang, cast cement elephant ornaments on the façade and dramatic metal elevator doors that seem ripped from a chieftain’s tomb. Photo by Flickr user Keith Ivey.

If you were catching a bus in or out of D.C. during WWII, chances are your ride took off from this curvy-licious 1940 Greyhound depot. Glass bricks, an exterior clock and aluminum trim give the place a diner-ish appeal, even if the spot now houses a very un-snazzy CORT furniture rental center. Photo by Flickr user Adam Gerard.

Two 17-foot-tall sculptures of beefy men wrangling beefier horses flank the eastern entrance of FTC headquarters. Installed in 1942, they’re the handiwork of Michael Lantz and meant to represent humans attempting to harness the free market, we presume. Photo by Flickr user M.V. Jantzen.

The interiors of Paul Philippe Cret’s circa-1932 library/theater devoted to the Bard hark back to Ye Olde England (wood beamed ceilings, stained glass windows). But the stone and cement exterior is a pure Art Deco party with its streamlined, boxy shape and reliefs of scenes from Shakespeare plays like “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Photo by Flickr user Kevin Harber.