10 Great Walking Tours Through the City's Most. Colorful Neighborhoods Follow Frommer's for an up-close and personal look at the nation's capital. Discover the monumental architecture, historic homes, magnificent museums, and natural beauty that make a visit to Washington a one-of-a-kind adventure. Among the highlights:
- The places where the nation's heroes and history were made, from the summit of Capital Hill to the narrow streets of pre-Revolutionary Georgetown
- Scandal sites—with the inside scoop on Washington's back rooms, dirty deeds, and not-so-well-kept secrets of passion and political intrigue
- Embassy Row's majestic mansions, homes away from home for more than 150 world governments
- The best of the Mall—from the National Air and Space Museum's Skylab to the Hirshhorn's Sculpture Garden
- The cobblestone streets of Old Town Alexandria, where George Washington and Robert E. Lee once tread
