You get six free stamps with every visit, it’s truly a stamp collector’s paradise. From the Pony Express to FedEx, the free-to-enter museum is all about the history of the postal service in America, even during colonial times. There’s lots Read more…
Americans don’t have deep historical roots, their approach to history mirrors that of Catholic relics. They encase fragments of flags that flew during major battles in a glass case and show off Lincoln’s paperweights. None of those items have any Read more…
Best known for its portrait gallery of American presidents and the home to Gilbert Stuart’s unfinished painting of George Washington that became the likeness for the one dollar bill, it is the finest collection of classical and modern American portraits. Read more…
Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin Da Vinci, Medici, the National Gallery of Art is to Washington, D.C. What the Louvre is to Paris. Except it’s free and there isn’t a massive line to get in. It’s a democratically Read more…
Is a name that is needlessly long. It’s assumed that any museum of history in the capital would be a national museum about the country’s past. In its well laid-put galleries, American racial identity, industry, democracy, and culture are deconstructed. Read more…
I would have thought Chicago or New York would be the place for this, but turns out the National Building Museum lives on one side of Judiciary Square in Washington, D.C. Buildings are everything; we live, work, and rest in Read more…
The museum is expensive and small for Washington, D.C. standards, but time your visit correctly and you’ll be able to participate in simulations that gives you a broader perspective on law enforcement training. Its location under the D.C. courts and Read more…
There are four originals of the 1297 Magna Carta, one of them is in Washington, D.C.‘s National Archives. Entry is free but photography is prohibited. The modest downstairs gallery tells the troubled national history of how slaves built the Capitol Read more…
This is the most child-friendly museum of the Smithsonians in Washington, D.C. If you don’t like having your seat kicked by a toddler on the bus, screaming babies on airplanes, or parents bringing tweens into bars then you will not Read more…
Distance: 378km Location: Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia Date: December 25-29, 2022 Up front: This V6, mid-range, mid-size pickup could get you a top-of-the-line V6 Camry for the same money. With that in mind, the interior is best described as utilitarian Read more…