In and around D.C.

• Eastern Market
• Union Station
• Library of Congress (22 reading rooms and access to 650 miles of bookshelves)
• Old Post Office Pavilion (awesome view of the city from the tower...free tour)
• Biking around the monuments at night
• Fords Theater (newly renovated...check website for schedule of plays)
• Kennedy Center (free concerts every evening; open late...nice views from terrace)
• Wolf Trap (great outdoor performance venue; check the schedule for performances...cheaper lawn seating is usually available)
• Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA (This former prison is now much like the Torpedo Factory: you can talk to local artists and watch them work.)
• Old Town (Torpedo Factory, boat rides on Potomac, walk across Wilson Bridge, Masonic Memorial, stroll around the waterfront)
• University of Maryland Observatory in College Park, MD (observatory hosts free open houses twice a month during which visitors can listen to a half-hour lecture and then peer through telescopes that the staff has trained on extraterrestrial objects)
• Goddard Space Flight Center
• Adventure Theatre at Glen Echo Park (plays for children) 
• Meridian Hill Park 
• Spanish Steps (in the Kalorama neighborhood)
• National Archives
• National Aquarium
• U.S. Botanic Garden
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing 
• Navy Yard 
• Monuments on the National Mall
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope Leighey House/Woodlawn Plantation
• Netherlands Carillon/Iwo Jima
• George Washington Masonic Memorial
• Union Market