The Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station platform features a direct view of the U.S. Capitol Building and WMATA's Brentwood Rail Yard south of the station platform, as well as views of the major United States Postal Service Facility in Brentwood, D.C., southeast of the station platform, McKinley Tech High School and the District of Columbia school bus lot in the Eckington neighborhood, southwest of the station platform, the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center, west of the station platform on Rhode Island Avenue N.E.