Washington D.C. (District of Columbia)

I went to Washington D.C. when I was in my early teens. I remember going to the Holocaust Museum, (which made me cry, in a good way), being afraid of the metro's escalators...I would like to go back one day to experience:

the history, architecture, the memorials, the performing arts and the 

variety of international foods. 

Washington, D.C. formally the District of Columbia is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The U.S. Constitution allowed for the creation of a special district to serve as the permanent national capital. The District is therefore not a part of any U.S. state and is instead directly overseen by the federal government.

~The White House was originally called the “President’s Palace” or the “President’s House.” A Baltimore reporter once called it the “white house” in a newspaper article and the name caught on. 

~The Library of Congress, the biggest library in the U.S., contains 535 miles of bookshelves. In the Reading Room alone there are 45,000 reference books.

~There are no skyscrapers in DC

~The word “lobbyist” became popular with President Ulysses S. Grant’s disdain for the interest groups who bothered him while he relaxed in the Willard Hotel’s lobby.

"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls." 

 ~Robert J. McCracken