Museum of Natural History - 10th and Constitution Avenue, NW Visitors can learn about glaciers and Ice Age mammals. Exhibits range in size from the mounted African bush elephant, dinosaur skeletons and the 92-foot model of a blue whale to the Hope Diamond and the bones of a tiny pocket mouse. Popularly known as the Castic. It was the institution's first building. Today it houses the Visitor Information Center.
Tours are by reservation only.
No tours are given during August. Capitol South Metro Stop. Open all day, every day. Wander through The beautifully renovated historic station which contains gift shops, clothing boutiques and a food court. As a special tribute to those who did not return, the names of over 58,000 who gave their lives or who remain missing are inscribed in the memorial's walls.