Capitol Entertainment Services
Regularly Scheduled Tours
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Brookland
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Gray Line DC / Martz Group
Regularly Scheduled Tours
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N/A
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Tourmobile Sightseeing
Regularly Scheduled Tours
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Southwest - Waterfront
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Ford's Theatre
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Penn Quarter
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
N/A
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Foggy Bottom
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Luray Caverns
Science & Nature Attractions
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Virginia
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The largest and most popular caverns in Eastern America, this U.S. Natural Landmark is located 90 minutes southwest of Washington, DC, just 10 minutes from Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park. Discover cathedral-sized rooms with ceilings 10 stories high, filled with towering stone columns and crystal-clear pools.
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National Gallery of Art
Art Museum/Gallery
FREE
N/A
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Art Museum/Gallery
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Penn Quarter
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National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Religious Places
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Brookland
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The Old Post Office Pavilion
Historic Sites
FREE
Penn Quarter
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Smithsonian Institution Information Center in the Castle
Museum
FREE
Downtown
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U.S. Capitol Historical Society
Regularly Scheduled Tours
N/A
Capitol Hill
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Decatur House on Lafayette Square
Museum
$
Downtown
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National Archives & Records Administration
N/A
FREE
N/A
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National Aquarium
Science & Nature Attractions
$
Downtown
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The Phillips Collection
Art Museum/Gallery
$$
Dupont Circle - Kalorama
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National Geographic Society - Museum at Explorers Hall
Museum
N/A
Downtown
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National Building Museum
Museum
FREE
Penn Quarter
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Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Museum
$
Upper Northwest
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Art Museum/Gallery
$
Downtown
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Folger Shakespeare Library
Museum
$$
Capitol Hill
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Old Town Trolley Tours
Regularly Scheduled Tours
N/A
Downtown
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National Museum of Women in the Arts
Art Museum/Gallery
$
Downtown
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The Textile Museum
Museum
N/A
Dupont Circle - Kalorama
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Busch Gardens Williamsburg/ Water Country USA
Theme Park
$$$
Virginia
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Voted the world's "Most Beautiful Theme Park" for 16 consecutive years, Busch Gardens Williamsburg creates the ultimate family experience. We offer more than 50 thrilling rides and attractions and so much more. In 2007 Griffon was introduced, the world's tallest and first floorless dive coaster. Daytrips available from Union Station. (800) 343-7946
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Anderson House - The Society of the Cincinnati
Historic Sites
FREE
Dupont Circle - Kalorama
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Experience the history and splendor of Gilded Age Washington at Anderson House, a 1905 Beaux Arts mansion built as the winter home of Larz Anderson, an American diplomat, and his wife, Isabel. Designed by the Boston firm of Arthur Little & Herbert Browne, the house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996.
The Andersons built their Washington home primarily for entertaining. From 1905 to 1937, they hosted diplomatic and inaugural receptions, formal dinners and luncheons, and concerts. The Andersons' guest lists included the most prominent statesmen and intellectuals from the United States and abroad, including William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Winston Churchill. Anderson House is furnished with art and artifacts gathered by Larz and Isabel during numerous trips around the world, including English paintings, French furniture, Flemish tapestries, and a collection of Asian ivories, lacquerware, screens, and sculptures.
When Larz Anderson died in 1937 with no children, his widow oversaw the gift of Anderson House and much of its original furnishings to The Society of the Cincinnati, a patriotic organization of which Larz had been a devoted member. Founded in 1783 by George Washington and other officers of the Continental Army, the Society is now a non-profit historical organization devoted to preserving the memory of the American Revolution. Anderson House offers guided tours, a changing exhibition gallery, a research library, and public programs.
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U.S. Navy Museum
Museum
FREE
N/A
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Museum
FREE
Downtown
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National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
Monument/Memorial
FREE
N/A
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Lincoln Theatre, The - U Street Theatre Foundation
N/A
N/A
U Street/Cardozo/Shaw
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Bureau of Engraving & Printing
N/A
FREE
Downtown
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National Air and Space Museum
Museum
FREE
Penn Quarter
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National Postal Museum
Museum
FREE
Capitol Hill
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National Portrait Gallery
Art Museum/Gallery
FREE
Penn Quarter
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Dumbarton House
Museum
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Georgetown
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Circa 1800, Dumbarton House is a premiere example of Federal period architecture that features 18th- and 19th-century furniture and decorative arts (paintings, textiles, silver, and ceramics) made and used during the Republic's formative years. The Federal government and its many civil servants moved to Washington in 1800, and it was the family of Joseph Nourse, America's First Civil Servant (as the first Register of the U.S. Treasury), that lived in the home 1804-1814. The next resident, Charles Carroll, harbored the "President's Lady," Dolley Madison, in August 1814 fleeing from the burning White House and invading British troops. Since 1932, Dumbarton House has been the headquarters of The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, a patriotic non-profit organization founded in 1891 to collect and preserve objects of significant historical interest and to educate citizens about them.
Dumbarton House is accredited by the American Association of Museums, and hosts a regular schedule of programs including special exhibitions and tours, free concerts, lectures, tastings, school and scout programs, cotillion classes, and summer camps. Public tours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, with 45-minute tours hourly 10am-1pm (extended hours may be offered so call, or check the website, for most current tour options).
Admission: Adults/Seniors $5.00; children, youth, and students-with-ID are always free.
Parking behind garden at Q & 27th Sts; ADA access at terrace door.
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National Museum of Natural History
Museum
FREE
Downtown
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Anacostia Community Museum
Museum
FREE
Anacostia
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Library of Congress
N/A
FREE
Capitol Hill
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National Museum of American History
Museum
FREE
Downtown
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Lincoln Memorial
Monument/Memorial
FREE
Southwest - Waterfront
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Jefferson Memorial
Monument/Memorial
N/A
N/A
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Mount Vernon: George Washington's Estate & Gardens
Historic Sites
$$
Virginia
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Tudor Place Historic House & Garden
Historic Sites
$
Georgetown
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White House
Historic Sites
FREE
Downtown
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Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building
Art Museum/Gallery
N/A
Southwest - Waterfront
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Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Art Museum/Gallery
FREE
Downtown
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National Museum of African Art
Museum
N/A
Downtown
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Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Art Museum/Gallery
FREE
Downtown
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Arlington National Cemetery
Monument/Memorial
FREE
Virginia
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Supreme Court of the United States
N/A
FREE
Capitol Hill
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C & O Canal National Historical Park
N/A
$
Georgetown
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Rock Creek Park
N/A
FREE
Georgetown
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A rustic expanse of 1,754-acres surrounding Rock Creek and extending north to the District line. Includes Pierce Mill, Art Barn gallery, nature center, riding stables, tennis courts, a golf course, 30 picnic areas, playing fields and an extensive network of trails for walking, jogging and cycling.
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U.S. Capitol
N/A
N/A
Capitol Hill
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Monument/Memorial
FREE
N/A
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Washington Monument
Monument/Memorial
FREE
Downtown
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Arlington House
Historic Sites
FREE
Virginia
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Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
Science & Nature Attractions
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N/A
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Lafayette Square
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N/A
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Marine Corps Memorial Iwo Jima Statue
Monument/Memorial
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Virginia
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National Mall
Historic Sites
FREE
Downtown
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Old Stone House
Historic Sites
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Georgetown
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The Pentagon
N/A
FREE
Virginia
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Potomac Park
N/A
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Southwest - Waterfront
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Theodore Roosevelt Island
Monument/Memorial
FREE
Georgetown
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Vietnam Women's Memorial
Monument/Memorial
N/A
Downtown
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Black History National Recreation Trail
Historic Sites
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Directs visitors to sites in historic neighborhoods that illustrate aspects of African-American history. For a free brochure, write Washington, DC Black History Recreation Trail, National Park Service, National Capital Region, Office of Public Affairs, 1100 Ohio Dr. SW, Washington, DC 20242.
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Emancipation Statue
Historic Sites
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Capitol Hill
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Family Tree of Life Statue
Historic Sites
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Anacostia
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Historic Sites
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Southeast
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Lincoln Park
Historic Sites
N/A
Capitol Hill
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East Potomac Park Golf Course
N/A
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Southwest - Waterfront
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C & O Canal Boat Rides
Regularly Scheduled Tours
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Georgetown
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Great Falls Park
N/A
N/A
Virginia
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Mount Vernon Trail
N/A
N/A
Virginia
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Art Museum/Gallery
FREE
Downtown
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The Kreeger Museum
Art Museum/Gallery
$
Georgetown
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White House Visitor Center
N/A
FREE
Downtown
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Entertainment Cruises
Regularly Scheduled Tours
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Southwest - Waterfront
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Anecdotal History Tours
Regularly Scheduled Tours
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"You'll find yourself dreamily following him, mesmerized by his tales." - Washington Post. Featured on national & international TV. Custom tours by award-winning author. Combination motorized and walking tours to monuments/memorials, front of White House, exterior of Capitol, Arlington National Cemetery, Georgetown & more.
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FDR Memorial
Monument/Memorial
N/A
Southwest - Waterfront
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Korean War Veterans Memorial
Monument/Memorial
FREE
Downtown
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Built by the Korean War Veterans Memorial Advisory with $18 million in donated funds. Located on a 2.2-acre site adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, featuring a sculptured column of soldiers arrayed for combat and a 164-foot mural wall inscribed with the words, "Freedom Is Not Free" and etched with 2,500 photographic images of nurses, chaplains, crew chiefs, mechanics and other support personnel. Open daily 8 am - midnight. Free. For details, call the N
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