Washington D.C.

About Washington D.C.

Washington D.C. the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. It is defined by imposing neoclassical monuments and buildings including the iconic ones that house the federal government’s 3 branches the Capitol, White House, and Supreme Court. It's also home to iconic museums and performing-arts venues such as the Kennedy Center.
White House

White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. The White House complex includes the Executive Residence, West Wing, East Wing, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the former State Department, which now houses offices for the president's staff and the vice president, and Blair House, a guest residence.
National Mall

National Mall is home to iconic monuments including the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The National Mall contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and statues.
Newseum

Newseum is an interactive museum that promoted free expression and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution while tracing the evolution of communication. The seven-level, 250,000-square-foot museum is located in Washington, D.C., and features fifteen theaters and fifteen galleries.
Lincoln Memorial

Lincoln Memorial is a US national memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in the form of a neoclassical temple. The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address.
Washington Monument

Washington Monument is an obelisk within the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States. The monument is made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss and is both the world's tallest predominantly stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk.
National Museum of Natural History

National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum and is the eleventh most visited museum in the world and the most visited natural history museum in the world. The museum's collections contain over 145 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, the largest natural history collection in the world.
Madame Tussauds Washington D.C.

Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. is a wax museum located in Washington D.C., the capital city of the United States. The museum features wax sculptures of famous figures from politics, culture, sports, music, and television. The wax museum is located across the street from Ford's Theatre where US President Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth.
Pentagon

Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense. You can take a tour that dynamically highlights the respective missions of the five Armed Services, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Staff through a 60-minute presentation that includes a 1.49-mile walk through the building. Each tour includes the mission of the DOD and numerous military displays.
National Zoological Park

National Zoological Park, commonly known as the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States. The park has there 180 species of trees, 850 species of woody shrubs and herbaceous plants, 40 species of grasses, and 36 different species of bamboo. The best-known residents are the giant pandas, but the zoo is also home to birds, great apes, big cats, Asian elephants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, aquatic animals, small mammals, and many more.
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
Best Time To Visit Washington D.C.

The best time to visit Washington D.C. is from September to November and March to May when the weather is pleasant.

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