DC lifetime resident here. It's a pretty boring place unless you REALLY like derivative white marble buildings, bland government offices, or military facilities.

The best way to see it is by bike. Rent an electric bike (ideally a proper one from a store, or the cap bikeshare) and bike around downtown - I recommend h st, pennsylvania, 11th and 7th sts downtownish, there's a protected lane on 15th that takes you into virginia and from there you can bike along the potomac
or you can bike to navy yard and catch the anacostia riverwalk trail on the other side of the frederick douglass /south capitol street bridge) and ride to bladensburg waterfront park - you can keep going to college park metro or north to west hyattsville o even wheaton metro if adventurous but the main things to see in dc are threefold:
anacostia between the rollerrink and bladensburgh waterfront
anacostia between waterfront, navy yard and 11st bridge to the east (you can't hug the water the whole time because of military facilities you sort of zig and zig out)

and the potomac river trail (i dunno the official name) towards mt vernon - never taken it that far but you can ride from dc to alexandria and a lot is along the water through the trail is much more crowded and rougher than the anacostia riverwalk (on the far side of the river away from the city, yes its in the ghetto, yes its worth it)

dc is sort of a cheap copy of rome/paris with derivative architecture
there's a lot of cool stuff to see a few hours away in the mountains and I would recommend doing that if you have time (spruce knob, harpers ferry, blackwater falls)

DC is a pretty small city and you do not need a week there. Venture out into Old Town Alexandria or further into Virginia. DC will be hot and humid so dress appropriately. Bike or take the metro. The museums are one of the best parts of the city so take advantage. Just be on the lookout for blacks.

>>2887220
>The museums
fuck off

>>2887226
Thats what normies do - museums and monuments to war. Dc is a military base attached to an abandoned plantation turned into an experimental brown breeding ground.
Plus you are gonna be here during the america 250 fuckfest so that will complicate everything possibly the worst time to come to do

Go to Annapolis one day. It's the site of the Naval College. Cool oldtown. No plastic cubes.
>>2887226
No, looking at the real life BAR and Viet Cong pungie sticks was awesome.

>>2887212
you could fill your entire week just visiting museums. there's a lot to see there. washignton dc has its bad areas but in general it's a beautiful city. as a brit, it may be less interesting to you, but for americans there are all kinds of monuments, government buildings, the national cemetery and so on. spring would have been a better time to visit but july 4 probably makes up for it being summer.

>>2887226
>go to a national capital known primarily for museums and monuments
>"fuck off with museums"
wtf else do you expect? Mountains? Nightlife? Go literally anywhere else lmao

>>2887226
Literally the only redeeming part of DC, enjoy the feral groids and terrible traffic.

>>2887236
there's mountains 2-3 hours away and I would recommend seeing that instead if you have time
there um are nightclubs but haha I dunno who does that maybe black people and white college kids

>>2887240
mmm the feral groids and insane traffic are my favorite features

>>2887212
you could not have picked a worse time for crowds but all the good museums are free and it would take about a week to see everything at the mall.

>>2887259
the museums are boring
other places have better museums
dc museums are sanitized and there's too much security theater like an airport just to get in
I hate being searched by black people just to look at art that's all behind plexiglass and EVERY room has uniformed blacks staring you down assuming you will do something wrong.

Baltimore and Richmond have better food and more interesting art.

I will tip my hat out for Della Barba pizza though, it's not near anything sorta off capitol hill, but the pizza is quite nice and comes in a variety of styles

2amys is also a classic (try the norcia) if you like neapolitan, and ledo's is trashy but delicious party pizza with like a pastry crust, spicy pepperoni (get the pepperoni) and a sweet sauce

>>2887226
Not everyone is a loser fuck who goes to SEA to try and fuck a hooker.

>>2887267
i havent been in a long time. is the security theater really that bad? i might just skip it

>>2887269
It isn’t. This person is just dumb. Baltimore does not have better food than DC.

>>2887269
It's just them poking through any bags you bring and I think going through a metal detector, but I mean your phone backup charger or eyeglasses can set it off, and I just don't like being accosted by blacks so I stopped dealing with those sorts of venues

the best is probably the botanical garden (some is indoors, some is outdoors), the natural history museum (gems), and paleontology if you have little kids but I feel like the art is kinda boring and again its all behind plexiglass and there's black people staring you down
renwick is nice but they won't let you carry a backpack on your back (crafts and fiber art)

I recommend biking by the water its a better use of your time and will be less awful in the summer heat as long as you keep a good pace - and by the water its a bit cooler.

>>2887271
its more adventurous dc is expense account dining and everything is bland and corporate

I like hersh's pizza, maggie's farm for bistro bar stuff and there's like an english themed coffee shop in roland park thats nice
also a bakery I wanna say on the south side of town that's very trendy but I haven't been yet with timed releases (i.e. croissants at 8 am)

also,
ALSO
if you are coming to dc, bike or drive through anacostia
go to the bad part of town
cross the river
see what others don't
it's worth it, you won't die just don't make eye contact or engage the locals
I think there's some new food places in anacostia and theres a museum there too

also richmond has a WAY better bakery (sub rosa) than anything in dc, dc sucks for bakeries
also better pizza (pizza bones, sourdough, anchovies are quality)

oh and if you are in dc, the old post office building ne trump hotel ne i dunno what its called now has a FREE elevator up to the top for scenic views just make sure you check on the times first, and I think there is a security theater aspect

and you have to get tickets but going up the top of the washington monument is worth it if you can score tickets

>>2887268
>Look guys! See! I don't have ANY sex at all! Do you approve of me now!?? Guys???

and make sure to walk around the navy yard and the wharf, but you can also sortaaa bicycle through most of them and I recommend doing that too and there's a weird but cool bicycle bridge near the waterfront I think the entrance is near maine ave and 9th st its a bit hard to find uphill from maine ave in a park but there's a bridge running parallel to 395 taking you across to hains point, which has a nice view out onto the water and across into virginia
there's also a nice bridge next to 495 for bikes or people with a good view of the water and va skyline near the mgm casino/alexandria

>>2887273
Do not go to Anacostia. It’s just a crime ridden shithole and there is nothing worth seeing there.

>>2887278
well, I mean, if you are a scaredy cat you can bike through it
and the anacostia riverwalk trail is BEAUTIFUL and not that ghetto cuz white people use it and it is separated from neighborhoods by 295 (highway) and a river on the other side, between the rollerrink or you can start at the pennsylvania ave, 11 st, or south capitol st bridges, and go upstream to bladensburg waterfront park then from there you can just stop (that's the prettiest stretch) or connect to college park metro or west hyattsville (closer), via bike paths

go to anacostia to see what's there, just drive around and bike around
the weird part of dc is having this grand capital city TOTALLY compromised by minorities that the ruling class imported themselves, embarrassingly, and nobody can talk about how segregated it is

ive spent hours biking around southeast dc and lived to tell the tale, just don't do anything stupid

>>2887279
If you want beautiful just go out into Virginia.

>>2887280
anacostia riverwalk is an easy paved well maintained biking trail with much of it running near the water, it gives you a good sense of the tidal eco-scapes of DC, where the rugged piedmont of Georgetown gives way to flatter, tidal areas more suitable for cotton and tobacco.

you could also see kenilworth aquatic gardens - just off the bike trail, which may have some water lillies blooming by them

you learn much more about our country by seeing the all black ghettos just 5 mi from the white house

>>2887279
Bicycling is a degree of separation from the street. It makes you feel safer than being on foot, where you can easily be surrounded or followed by harassers.
>>2887280
Yes, you can take the 611-FR bus from DC to the Front Royal Walmart (kekekek, that's what OP wanted to see anyway) if you want to see mountains. From there a city loop bus takes you down to the Shenandoah entrance. It's going to be a sweaty climb on foot along the Dickey Ridge Trail, but it's entirely doable as a nature daytrip from DC.

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>>2887212
They're working hard to clean up the black teen menace and the scribblings of liberal vandals.

>>2887226
I really don't understand this comment. Why exactly do you have a problem with museums?!

>>2887305
They're a boring waste of time. Why would I travel across the world just to see some artificial curated bullshit. You might as well stay home and watch youtube travel vlogs at that point

>>2887407
Please tell us what you do when you visit other cities.

>>2887407
wrong, some museums are nice, but dc is kinda bland and the exhibits are too conservative to be fun or interesting

>>2887466
I already said the best thing to do in dc is walk around near the water and get a bike and bike the paved paths along the water

>>2887407
>artificial curated bullshit
You realize if you go to an art museum those are the actual paintings by the actual artists right? lol

>>2887486
that's not the issue, the issue is the selection is kinda boring it's like your rich old grandmother's house but she had more money than taste
dc is an old plantation city turned into a military base
it made more sense when the blacks were working, and now they are just weaponized drones and you have to escape indoors where there are YET MORE blacks but these are paid to keep quiet unless you break "the rules"

once you get outside of DC you realize how conservative the museums are in dc

>>2887407
That's actually the point of visiting museums. Live gets pretty boring the older you get and you have to learn to get excitement out of the most boring things. I have always thought museums are boring, but now I'm 37 and learned recently that they can be quite entertaining. I think it's correlated to the age. I have seen it all so mos things are kinda boring to me, but that stupid drawing of a donkey that I saw in the ubud art museum still cracks me up.

>>2887466
Walk around random places and talk to random people

Went 2 weeks ago. Ford theatre was really cool. Learned more about Lincoln and JWB than I ever knew before. Night tour of the monuments and memorials was great too