#36 best destination in the world

Lincoln Memorial

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  • National monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln
  • Built in 1922
  • Since the 1930s the monument has been symbolic of race relations
  • Was the location of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech

The Mansion on O Street

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  • American luxury boutique hotel in the historic district of Washington D.C.
  • Noted for eccentric interior styling which includes hidden doors, secret passages, and rooms in which all furnishings and fixtures are for sale
  • The four-story building contains guest rooms, a private Social club, the O Street Museum Foundation and a conference center

The Dupont Underground

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  • Community arts organization transforming an abandoned city space – the subterranean streetcar station in Dupont Circle – into a platform to support the creative arts, contemporary arts practice, and ongoing conversation about the city
  • Started in 2016

National Museum of African American History and Culture

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  • National museum documenting African American history and culture, with over 36,000 artifacts
  • Opened in September 2016 in a ceremony led by President Barack Obama

National Museum of Natural History

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  • The fourth most visited museum in the world and the most visited natural history museum in the world
  • Holds the national collections and research facilities
  • Collections contain over 126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts
  • Home to 185 professional natural history scientists, the largest group of scientists dedicated to the study of natural and cultural history in the world
  • Opened in 1910

National Gallery of Art

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  • Museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress
  • Gallery’s collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas
  • Gallery often presents temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art
  • One of the largest museums in North America

International Spy Museum

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  • Private non-profit museum dedicated to the tradecraft, history and contemporary role of espionage, featuring the largest collection of international espionage artifacts currently on public display
  • Opened in 2002

United States Capitol

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  • Home of the United States Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government
  • The original building was completed in 1800
  • The Capitol is built in a distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior

Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America Catacombs

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  • Franciscan complex that includes gardens, replicas of various shrines throughout Israel, a replica of the catacombs in Rome, an archive, a library, as well as bones of Saint Benignus of Armagh, brought from the Roman catacombs and originally in the cathedral of Narni, Italy

National Capitol Columns

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  • An arrangement of twenty-two Corinthian columns which were a part of the United States Capitol from 1828 to 1958, placed amid 20 acres of open meadow, known as the Ellipse Meadow

Costs

Number of Days: 13 days

Best Time To Fly: March-May, Sept-Nov

Airline tickets: $707

Seattle -> Washington DC (round trip) = $707

Food: $45/day x 13 days = $585

Entertainment: $63

Airbnb: $185/day x 12 days = $2,220

TOTAL: $3,575