This grassy pedestrian mall is surrounded by our country’s most iconic memorials and meaningful history. Matt and Mariel’s favorite free museums are the Archives, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Air and Space Museum. We believe there is a Smithsonian museum for everyone!

This historic district near where we live is full of colonial architecture, places to eat, and things to buy. The town square has hosted a Saturday morning farmer’s market for three hundred years. Our favorite restaurants in Old Town are Tatte Bakery and Cafe, the Turkish Coffee Lady, and Josephine’s. We love thrifting at Look Again Resale Shop (which raises money for people with blindness) and checking out the many antique stores that line King St, like Gossypia -- where someone has found antique formal gowns spanning the last hundred years.

We love this small chain of bakeries you can find in Washington D.C. and Boston. The Perry Belmont happens to be equidistant between 2 locations, each within half a mile of the venue. A convenient and tasty place for breakfast!

This ticketed museum in the DuPont Circle area is less than half a mile from the Perry Belmont. The Phillips collection contains great works of modern art, including an intimate Mark Rothko exhibit Rothko helped to design.