Frommer's Washington, D.C. from $80 a Day

Chapter One

Nearly 20 million visitors come to the nation's capital each year plotting itineraries that list Washington, D.C.'s most famous "best" experiences: tours of the presidential memorials, the White House (at least from the outside), the Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian museums, and other of D.C.'s premier museums. Your own itinerary should include all of these and more. Try to catch one of the free concerts staged nightly at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and make sure you fit in a delicious meal at one of D.C.'s many good and inexpensive ethnic eateries. Ride the Metro and observe Washingtonians at their most serious; rent a bike and pedal along a path that parallels the Potomac River; stroll one of D.C.'s charming neighborhoods. Discovering the best of Washington has as much to do with experiencing the city's less touted charms as it does with ... read full excerpt from Frommer's Washington, D.C. from $80 a Day, 12th Edition ebook