Saturday, September 15, 2012

Free Smithsonian Museum: Washington Dulles


The space shuttle Enterprise at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Free Smithsonian Museum: Washington Dulles

Okay. I'm cheating a little bit: the Udvar-Hazy museum (www.nasm.si.edu/udvarhazy) adjacent to Washington Dulles airport requires a 50-cent, 15-minute bus ride to get there. But holey moley. This blows other little "airport museums" out of the water -- it's a set of giant hangars stuffed with things like an SR-71 Blackbird, the space shuttle Enterprise and the Enola Gay. Yeah, the plane that dropped the Bomb? They've got that. They also have free tours and an observation tower where you can watch planes landing at Dulles.

Read more: http://www.frommers.com/slideshow/index.cfm?group=804&p=9#ixzz26TzxDxDH

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