Shelter The shelter is an unmarked location in the Capital Wasteland . Location . The shelter is a small , unmarked area on the Pip - Boy 3000 world map , but the door appears on the Pip - Boy ' s local map . It is located south of the Chryslus Building , and east of Farragut West Metro station . The entrance is a door underneath an intact bridge . If you start at the entrance to the Chryslus Building , head south to the second semi - intact road , which should have concrete dividers in the middle . Coming from Farragut West Metro station , head around north - northwest up the slope to the first road , and follow that road east . If you wind up seeing an intact bridge with two statues of three Valkyrie - like winged - women , you ' re on the road to the north and it ' s safest with followers to backtrack west to get to the next road to the south . There ' s a blue and yellow truck in the east bound lanes with 3 ammunition box es . The door to the shelter is under the north side of the bridge just past the truck . You may see a fire ahead on the road , this is a burning pile of tires at a small fortified super mutant camp . Approaching the super mutant camp may trigger an Enclave Vertibird drop off after The Waters of Life quest , 2 Enclave soldiers and a sentry bot are usually dropped off on top of the bridge . Layout . Interior . Just inside the entrance is a unique arrangement of items in the shape of a tower with a chessboard as a base , a small burned book supported by pencils with a coffee mug , an upside down Nuka - Cola and a tin can balanced above it . Touching this arrangement will topple it . Further inside the shelter is a feral ghoul and what appears to be the remains of a lab . Medical supplies are stuck into the face of a damaged garden gnome to form an effigy of the Statue of Liberty , and a trail of plungers go from the floor , up the wall , and onto part of the ceiling , accompanied by bloody handprints . The skeleton of the would - be wall - crawler lies on the floor under the last plunger on the ceiling . A nearby mannequin brandishes more plungers and even wears one as a hat . There are about 50 plungers in the room , including one on the ceiling , which when shot oddly falls over upwards onto the ceiling . This would appear to be because there is an invisible barrier where that plunger is , and the roof has no collision . Thus , the plunger falls on the invisible barrier , and just appears to fall on the ceiling because of perspective . There is a man of plungers on the gurney with a metal helmet for a head and a knife in his crotch . The damaged garden gnome on the desk has a stimpak in his arm , is wearing tortiseshell glasses and has at least 6 Med - X syringes stabbed into his eyes . He is also carrying a dose of jet . Between the doorway and the filing cabinets are two IV stands , each containing a blood pack . Exterior . There is a small Talon Company outpost situated to the west around an abandoned truck and usually is comprised of a single Talon merc and a level dependent robot escort . There is also a super mutant camp to the east and an Enclave drop off point on the bridge . Appearances . This shelter appears only in " Fallout 3 " .