The most popular of the Smithsonian museums features the Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer and Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis.

The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum welcome home their treasured collections to a newly restored historic building in Washington DC Among the thousands of artworks...

Website: http://www.suprem...  Visiting hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Closed Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays. Lectures in the Courtroom are given every hour on the...

Repository where the most important historical documents of the United States are held, such as the original Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Constitution and the 1297 version of the Magna Carta.

After a $15 million restoration by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private, non-profit organization, President Lincoln's Cottage is open to the public for the first time, giving Americans an intimate, never-before-seen view of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and family life. In addition to President Lincoln’s Cottage, the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center adjacent to the Cottage, features related exhibits and media presentations. Tickets are available through online, advance purchase is strongly recommended.

Open area of gardens, fountains, trees and monuments stretching nearly two miles between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.

A museum and research center for Pre-Columbian and Byzantine art.

The world's largest museum and research complex is actually comprised of 15 specialty museums, and other affiliates, with subjects that vary from African Art to the postal service, sculpture to space exploration.

Right across from the White House, this is one of the oldest surviving homes in Washington DC and was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

A truly green spectacle, with a jungle, a National Garden with a First Ladies water garden, a rose garden and exhibits on ecology and evolutionary biology.

A 19-foot bronze statue of perhaps the most esteemed founding father sits beneath a columned rotunda in the style of the Roman Pantheon.

D.C.'s largest private art museum has impressive collections of both American and European art.

Part of the Smithsonian Institution that owns more than 40,000 works depicting the history of art in the United States.

This museum, created after the Civil War, has several exhibits displaying gruesome injuries from the battlefield and detailing some of the medical techniques used.

A park-like zoo containing 4,000 animals and 500 different species.

The magnificent domed edifice is both a grand symbol for and the working seat of the United States government .

The section of Massachusetts Avenue with many embassies and the house of the Vice President located on one end.

Home to the Washington Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Ballet and more.

The theater in which Abraham Lincoln was shot.

Established in 1910 and located on the National Mall, this prestigious museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, holds the world's most extensive collection of natural history specimens and human artifacts including the remains of dinosaurs and tools used by early man.

Springtime in Washington means the explosion of white-pink clouds of cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin.

Eastern Market, one mile east of Capitol Hill, is one of the oldest farmer's markets in the United States.  After suffering a fire that gutted its original building, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty made it a...

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A guided eight-mile bike tour which passes 55 landmarks in three hours.

A museum of American craft art that begins with James Renwick’s architectural design of the building itself.

This outdoor memorial is the most popular of presidential memorials, in large part because of its elegant design, which includes waterfalls and sculptures.

The office building where the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of President Nixon.

Honoring the most famous African-American, this National Historic Site consists of Douglass' home and a visitor center and is dedicated to preserving his legacy of work on behalf of African Americans.

Not just a park in the city, but a kind of leisurely museum, with a scattering of Civil War forts, a cemetery and a 19th-century mill within its bounds.