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Vibrant street art adds color to DC in any season.
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Capitol Hill
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Downtown
The National Geographic Museum of Exploration Opens June 26
DC's Top Magician and Mentalist Knows What You're Thinking!
National Mall
Visit the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
NoMa & Union Market
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Georgetown
The Magic Duel Comedy Show
Dupont Circle
Dine intimately in the presidential Dining Room, enjoy cocktails throughout the main museum rooms or relax and unwind in the tranquil period garden.
The Group Tour Company customizes sightseeing programs for groups arriving into Washington, DC via air or motorcoach
Tenleytown
City Ridge is reimagining what DC life can be.
Brookland
Untold DC Tours offers private tours beyond monuments—sharing the people, places, and stories that shaped the nation’s capital.
The home of every U.S. president except George Washington, the site of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue was selected in June 1791
Penn Quarter & Chinatown
The Washington Auto Show, the largest public event in DC.
Plan your Smithsonian visit
Anacostia
The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site preserves the last residence of Frederick Douglass (1818 -1895), one of the most prominent African American leaders of the 19th century
Located in Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill, the Emancipation Memorial (sometimes referred to as the Freedman's Memorial) feature..