Welcome to What’s That? — a weekly contest on GGW.

Each week, What’s That? will show three small close-up photographs of a well-known place three different well-known places in Washington, DC. The first person to get all three will win recognition of his or her genius when I reveal the answers a few days later.

Here’s the first set:

Post your guesses in the comments. Comments won’t appear by default to avoid spoilers, but you can click to see them (ideally after you take a guess yourself).

Update by David: Sorry, I screwed up the spoiler feature. It’s fixed now. Also, the original text made it sound as though the photos were all of the same place. They’re three different places.

Michael Rogers is the director of the National Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative and a Media Fellow at the New Organizing Institute, where he develops nationwide media programs. Michael is the executive editor of PageOneQ and director of business development for Raw Story. He has lived in Adams Morgan for 14 years.