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washington d.c.  united states
001 The White House002 Washington National Cathedral003 Thomas Jefferson Memorial
004 U.S. Capitol005 Lincoln Memorial006 Vietnam Veterans Memorial
007 Washington Monument008 Supreme Court of the United States009 Library of Congress
  
010 National Gallery of Art011 Union Station012 National Museum of Air and Space
   
013  Willard Hotel014 Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center 015 Washington, D.C., Metro
   
016 National Building Museum017 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum018 The Mall
019 Smithsonian Institution 020 State, War and Navy Building021 Dulles International Airport
 
Thomas Jefferson, [Proposed Plan of Federal City], March 1791, Ink on paper, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division Library of Congress.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, "Plan of the City of Washington," March 1792, Engraving on paper, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
Robert King, "A Map of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia," 1818, Engraved map, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
Peder Anderson and Fitz Hugh Lane, "View of the City of Washington," 1838, Color lithograph, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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