The International Spy Museum is all about espionage: human intelligence and technology. The museum houses espionage artifacts --- especially from the Cold War era --- and interactive exhibits on topics such as keeping a cover and code breaking. The museum also offers spy experience tours: participants must use spy techniques to achieve their assigned mission on the streets of DC.
Washington, DC is the home of a number of professional sports teams. Sports fans can catch a Washington Capitals hockey game or a Washington Wizards basketball game at the Verizon Center; Washington Redskins football game at the FedEx Field; Washington Nationals baseball game at Nationals Park; and D.C. United soccer game at RFK Stadium.
The National Museum of Crime and Punishment brings alive the history and technology of crime and punishment with exhibits and interactive exhibits. The exhibits include medieval torture devices and death penalty artifacts such as the gas chamber and electric chair. The interactive exhibits include safe cracking, computer hacking, lie detector testing, thermal imaging, forensic lab workshops, a shooting simulator, a driving simulator and a crime solving adventure.
At the National Air and Space Museum at the National Mall in Washington, DC and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in nearby Chantilly, Virginia, aircraft and spacecraft exhibits and artifacts are on view. Visitors can see rockets, missiles, helicopters, World War II war planes, space shuttles, spacesuits, space capsules, satellites, moon rocks, commercial passenger planes, historical planes and a flight simulator.
Explore Georgetown. The historic neighborhood is a young, modern area with many restaurants and shops, and Georgetown University nearby. The neighborhood's main commercial streets are Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. In Georgetown you can also see the famous staircase from the 1973 horror film "The Exorcist" (which was filmed in Georgetown).
You can walk around the 104-acre Georgetown University main campus. Georgetown University is a Jesuit Catholic institution and one of the U.S.'s top private universities. The university is known for its international focus and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. In fact, Bill Clinton is one of the university's most distinguished alumni. Visitors will notice that many of the campus buildings are built in a Gothic style. The university also has its own cemetery on campus. Visitors can eat and socialize with Georgetown students at the on-campus restaurants and student center.
