Washington, D.C.

In the early 21st century, when the United States was divided into thirteen commonwealths, Washington, DC, the pre-War capital city of the U.S. became part of the Columbia Commonwealth, along with Virginia and Maryland.

Pentagon/Citadel
The Pentagon was largely destroyed during the Great War as it was the largest known concentration of controlling the United States Military thus a prime target. But its sub-levels remained intact, and contained various pre-war technology and weaponry. The Brotherhood of Steel arrived at Washington DC, destroyed the defense robots, and began to retrieve the technology from the site. But there was something else, as well…a technological marvel that, if restored, could help the Brotherhood rebuild a strength and reputation that had been declining steadily for years. Paladin Owyn Lyons, the leader of the Brotherhood group, became the Elder of the Brotherhood's Capital Wasteland division and established a new, permanent Brotherhood base called the Citadel, built into and beneath the ruins of the Pentagon.

Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial stands in ruins but Lincoln sitting in his chair headless giving an even more grim and chilling look to the world of Fallout 3. Sand bags sit outside in a fashion suited that it was once used as a tactical position during a firefight.

Washington Monument
The phallic looking masterpiece of the Washington Monument now stands with a fence made of scrap surrounding it. It has clear signs of it once if not still being a strong hold for a military unit. The monument's cement has been stripped at many places showing it's wooden frame, as sort of a picture to show how the picture of America as a whole has been destroyed.

Museum of American history
The Museum of American History remains largely untouched except for the dilapidation and trash can fires. Old posters for the Space exhibit still hang. A woolly mammoth statue sits in the center untouched by time or the Great War. A T-Rex's headless skeleton stands next to the mammoth showing that it was less fortunate, other dinosaur bones litter the ground around them. They stand as a reminder of how to us they seemed like history but in the Fallout world we're the history.

Museum of Technology
A dilapidated shell of it's former glory, the Museum of Technology lays there, pillars collapsing, the first flyable plane of the Wright brothers, laying on the ground, its wings visibly smashed, and an old faded Vault-Tec banner hanging. This place is a stand on how we were so advanced, maybe too advanced for our own good. In the game it is filled with super mutants.



The Capitol building
A bombed out war zone with visible battle damage on the outside the Capitol stands, as inside two warring factions struggle for control, burning rubble and bodies lay everywhere along with equipment that long ago was used to repair this place of government. The dome in the center of the building is partially destroyed exposing rebar and still slowly chipping away from the constant fighting within her walls. A place where the word was stronger then the gun has been flipped around especially in this anarchy filled world.

Other places
The Jefferson Memorial was converted to a water filtering facility with very large water pipes obstructing the main entrance. A smaller side entrance to the gift shop is open toward the west. This is used as a base for Project Purity which seeks to provide clean water to the entire capitol wasteland.

Appearances
Washington, DC will be one of the major locations in Fallout 3.