Symbols of American Democracy
From the White House fence to Lincoln's chair, tracing the capital's most powerful symbols.
Walk · 2.3 mi · 75 min · 7 stopsHear a free stopLive city
Washington DC
The National Mall and well past it, civic architecture, founding documents, memorials, Georgetown, U Street, and contested national memory.
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Washington DC after dark · 2 night tours
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Memorials and the Tidal Basin
One long sweep from the Washington Monument through the western memorials and around the Tidal Basin, where a century of memorials argues with itself.
Walk · 3.2 mi · 135 min · 16 stopsHear a free stop
Museums of the National Mall
Museum facades, sculpture and gardens, with stories to help choose where to go inside.
Walk · 3.4 mi · 125 min · 15 stopsHear a free stop
Capitol Hill and the Constitution
Capitol Hill from the sidewalk: everything worth seeing that needs no ticket.
Walk · 2.8 mi · 105 min · 12 stopsHear a free stop
Pennsylvania Avenue: Downtown to the President's Park
The inaugural parade route walked backwards, ending where presidents get shouted at.
Walk · 3.2 mi · 130 min · 15 stopsHear a free stop
Georgetown: the Older Town
A tobacco port older than the capital: the canal, the cobbles, and those stairs.
Walk · 3.2 mi · 105 min · 9 stopsHear a free stop
Dupont Circle and Embassy Row
Gilded Age fortunes, the embassies that inherited them, and one car bomb.
Walk · 1.7 mi · 70 min · 9 stopsHear a free stop
Black Broadway: U Street and Shaw
Black American culture's capital before Harlem: what 1968 took, and what came back.
Walk · 2.0 mi · 70 min · 7 stopsHear a free stop
Foggy Bottom: Watergate to the Memorial Bridge
From the Watergate to the bridge that faces Lincoln at Robert E. Lee's front door.
Walk · 2.0 mi · 65 min · 5 stopsHear a free stop
Arlington: The Nation's Cemetery
Robert E. Lee's front lawn, now the nation's cemetery. Headphones in, voices down.
Walk · 2.4 mi · 80 min · 6 stopsHear a free stop
The Last Night of Abraham Lincoln
April 14, 1865, on the ground it happened: the theatre box, Tenth Street, the bed.
Walk · 1.4 mi · 45 min · 5 stopsHear a free stop
Memorials After Dark
Floodlit marble, reflected names, and Jefferson across the water.
Walk · 2.4 mi · 85 min · 9 stopsHear a free stopGet the app
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- Choose a route in the app. With location enabled, GPS starts stories near its stops. Download maps and recorded narration before you go offline.
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