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National Building Museum
posted by vshaner The highlight of a trip here is the building itself, large, showy and beautiful. You can also learn about the symbolism of architecture in DC (washington monument anyone...?) if you can stop gawping long enough. Rock Creek Park
posted by pbaird What a park! I thought London had parks but this is on another scale altogether, you forget that you're even in the city at all! We hired bikes and followed the 20 mile bike trail and it was a lovely day. DC by foot
posted by xroose Great free walking tour around the mall suitable for all the family! Plenty to keep the kids entertained and we learned a lot too, these guys know how to do a tour! Embassy Row
posted by vmary It was just astonishing to see all the embassies on one gorgeous street, you really felt as if you were at the political centre of the world. I loved the different architectural styles as well as Gandhi. Roosevelt Memorial
posted by jroby I've seen the National Mall so may times on TV it was a little surreal being here, but this was the highlight. Designed as 4 outdoor rooms, the memorial has a lovely feel and is beautiful to look at. |
The capital of the United States of America is a city live with contradiction and irony. Beautiful monuments to our history exist steps away from what are indeed very poor areas. The city that professes to lead the free world is not allowed to govern itself, and has a history plagued with corruption. Of the United States but not a state itself, the District of Columbia occupies a unique niche in American culture, the city whose purpose by design (for better or worse) is to rule. Historical monuments, museums, and government buildings abound in Washington. Around the Mall, a park in the center of the city, you can find the US Capitol building, the museums of the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the White House, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Across the Potomac river in Virginia are the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. Just to the northeast of Washington in Maryland, an easy car ride away, is another great city, Baltimore. The Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean are easily accessible. The city and the surrounding suburbs in Maryland and Virginia have an active and exciting night-life. There are clubs, bars, and theaters to satisfy any taste and restaurants of nearly every type in existence. Although technically located in the South, Washington is a very cosmopolitan city and in fact bears little resemblance at all to the rest of the US. To most Americans DC is a fascinating place to visit, teeming with politics, diplomacy, history, and scandal. Those of us who live "inside the Beltway" by choice wouldn't have it any other way.