DC Landmarks

Millions flood to which city on the Potomac River each year to visit world-class museums, memorials, and in spring, the cherry blossoms and an occasional politician. Which city is it?

Which home, the most famous in the country, was burned by the British during the War of 1812?

Which large outdoor space is home to memorials and over a dozen museums, including the Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the National History Museum?

Which 555-foot-tall monument, which took decades to build, is the tallest structure in DC by law?

Although George Washington laid the first stone of which important home to Congress, the famous dome wasn’t added until the 1850s?

Which war memorial, designed by architect Maya Lin, contains the name of 58,318 servicemen and women who died during the war?

Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of which memorial on the National Mall?

Over a half million visitors travel to which Washington, D.C. Location every year, the site of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865?