In “The Amazing Acro-Cats,” trained kitties roll barrels, skateboard, jump through hoops and do other distinctly un-feline things. They also take their time doing tricks a...

Need a good cry? An Academy Award-nominated short film is a shortcut to catharsis. With one exception, this year’s live-action and animated honorees are emotionally manipula...

What if you threw an inauguration and every president — dead ones included — came? There would be a lot of grousing (“My hair did NOT look like that”) and some hurt fe...

Dear Friends of the Giant Fiberglass Pineapple Overlooking I-95: Stop writing us letters! We would love to write 270 words about your fruit, only we haven’t the time. But yo...

“Is this it?” asked a confused visitor to the National Museum of Language. The name implies a more magisterial setting than this low-ceilinged plot of green institutional ...

Many a milestone was attained in the airspace over the College Park Aviation Museum. There were big, sexy victories, like the first controlled helicopter flight, in 1924. And ...

Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881, which makes her use of bandages as building material only slightly less strange. This unusual touch is one reason her Glen...

There are so many reasons to listen to free cell phone or podcast tours without physically doing said tours. Perhaps your workout playlist needs a little gravitas, or your New...

Modern toilets can barely handle a baby wipe, much less pencils, toys, sugar bowls and muskets. These were all found while excavating a 19th-century privy, or outdoor bathroom...

We’ve visited 21 lesser-known attractions since launching Sites Unseen in August. Burning money (or just window-shopping) at the gift shops post-tour is now a tradition, or ...

“The Penalty of Bad Planning: Waste, Ugliness, Congestion.” So sayeth “Greenbelt Towns,” a 1936 brochure trumpeting the need for planned communities where families cou...

The secret to a successful doctor’s visit is asking informed questions. “I read online that mercury is poison. Could you prescribe something better for my back pain?" "Wil...

In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, D.C.’s role is a cameo at best. Isaacson speaks and signs Thursday night at Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave. NW; 7 p...

At a conventional museum, you press buttons to call the elevators or play tinny recordings. At the Marian Koshland Science Museum, you press buttons to play God. By “play Go...

The Maryland Historical Society doesn’t play favorites. For every blue-chip artifact — like the original 1814 draft of “The Star Spangled Banner” — the Baltimore mus...