Take your pick from some of the city’s best sights: the National Archives, where the Declaration of Independence lies enshrined for viewing; Ford’s Theatre, where John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln; or the Newseum, a whiz-bang, multistory collection of artifacts and cur-rent-events exhibits.
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- gawp at the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights – the original founding documents of the USA, scrawled in cursive on yellowing parchment – at the National Archives
- browse the world’s largest collection of US art, from George Washington’s official portrait to Andy Warhol’s pop art, at the Reynolds Center for American Art & Portraiture
- see the very seat where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and the pistol that did the job, at Ford’s Theatre
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