I’m in the capitol city of America! How many landmarks can I see?
There are lots of things to see and do in Washington DC, in this video I try to visit as many historic monuments, statues, museums, galleries, memorials, and more! I’m the ultimate tourist and here is my guide.
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Interesting how you left out the African American History museum but you were quick to mention the Holocaust museum. They are right next to each other. I'm not surprised, it's just typical and kinda pathetic
Idk how they perform, but some of my favorite videos from your channel are the ones where you go to different parts of Canada and show us around. I’d especially love to see Alberta or one of the territories next
I learned so much and I've lived in DC for years.
Please make Washington DC more white please!
I like the real FDR memorial more. It is the one outside of the Archives.
https://www.nps.gov/places/000/franklin-d-roosevelt-memorial-stone.htm
The humble size of the White House is the point. 🙂
George Masons in virgina😭
Does Washington DC have an established identity outside of just BEING the nation's capital.
I've noticed that the sports teams just really sees on the Capital aspect at the expense of Anything else And it'll be really interesting to make a video on that
I like the Lincoln Memorial but prefer the rendition of Ape Lincoln in the feature film Planet of the Apes
what is the music at the end of the video?
Don't show this video to someone from Rome, his hearth will stops when he will hear that Jefferson Memorial is "greek style" while seeing building that is almost blunt copy of Panteon.
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J.J says the Jefferson memorial is done in a "Greek style" which isn't inaccurate necessarily, but it's a copy of a Roman building built in the reign of Hadrian. I know J.J loves facts so I thought I would be pedantic.
I visited as a high school junior with two classmates in June 1958. We visited the FBI office and saw one of the agents shoot a Tommy gun. That would be an antique item now.
The Jefferson memorial at dusk was nearly empty and very spooky.
We got passes to the Senate and House. In the latter we saw speaker Rayburn in command—although he was very deferential to the Reps on the floor. Maybe that was how he kept in command, although he was not as with-it as his party wanted.
In the Senate we saw Senators Humphrey and Anderson and one or two others objecting to Eisenhower’s namination of Lewis Strauss to some job. Anderson was upset because Strauss had fibbed about nuclear testing. Anderson was very impressive—relaxed and effortlessly eloquent. I read in a newspaper that he was one of ten members of the Senate’s inner circle and that he had an IQ of 150. Humphrey seemed extremely open and likable—I could see why he was popular.
After that Goldwater spoke about how much money the government was wasting. He looked like a senator, but I was disappointed to see how stiff he was. He struck me as being wound up too tight.
Then JFK, flanked by his brother, entered in the back, quietly. He nudged his brother with his elbow and, when Bobby glanced at him, he tossed his head toward Goldwater, as though to say, “Get a load of this character.”
I saw JFK two years later at a speech in Union Square in NY City. What struck me but no one else, apparently, was his yellowish or orange tinge. It later came out that this was a symptom of Addison’s disease.
DC seems to look more fabulous in your video.
I was at Arlington for Obama’s 2011 Veteran’s Day speech. I also was unaware the MLK memorial opened that year too. I went there not too long after it opened. Wow.
I went there in July and there was a huge anima convention. There were cosplayers all over the hotel
I remember when I was a kid I really want to go to the US specifically New York. To me New York is America because most of the movies that I watched back then was set in New York but now, I wanted to go to Washington DC more because of its history, grandeur and importance to the US. I still want to go New York though but DC takes the no. 1 spot. Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston are also interesting for me.
Would have added:
Holocaust Museum
National Natural History Museum
National Portrait Gallery.
Smithsonian Castle.
African American Culture Museum.
Mt Vernon (Washington’s house).
FDR Memorial.
Spy Museum.
And sadly the Newseum is no more. RIP.
Bonus: Zero Milestone
Btw jfk was a sailor in ww2
The Arlington Cemetery Amphitheatre was the subject of a U.S. postage stamp in 1931.
Good to see this as a DC resident.
Aren't all pandas around the world legally on loan from the Chinese government? The ones at the National Zoo are returning this year, after we paid $500,000 to…take care of them for another year. Legally all cubs must be returned to the CCP once they reach 4 years old.
I remember visiting the National Zoo on a family vacation (1980s) and being very disappointed. I was expecting something larger and more grand than the zoo I grew up going to here in St Louis. It really made me appreciate how great the zoo is in StL That was also the year that we found out that not all zoos have free admission which was quite surprising.