It is home to the Hirshhorn and Freer Museums, ___ the Corcoran Gallery of art.

And don't ___ to visit Mount Vernon, George Washington's historic stately home.

The Capitol building is where the United States ___ meets.

Visitors can pay their respects to the nation's fallen heroes at the intensely ___ Vietnam War Memorial, the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National cemetery, and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

The Folger Shakespeare ___ has the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's work.

The old town ___ of Alexandria features historical homes and elegant shops.

There, you can visit embassy ___, stroll down by the old C&O tow canal, eat at Georgetown's many fine restaurants and walk its tree-lined streets.

___ Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, dates from the early 1700s.

The Washington Monument began in 1848 as a ___ to George Washington, the country's first president.

The national Zoological Park, created in 1887 exhibits more than four thousand ___ animals and is also a major research facility.

Washington is also a city filled with memorials to the nation's ___ military history.