The tourist’s Maryland is made up mostly of the fishing and water sports areas along Chesapeake Bay, the United States Naval Academy and the oldest state capital in the U.S. (it was the first capital of the nation after the Revolution was over), a number of outstanding race tracks including Pimlico, and the Antietam National Battlefield. Much of the central part of the state functions as residential suburbs of Washington.
Washington is second only to New York as the American city European visitors most want to see. And things to see there are plenty of: the Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate and the new House office buildings, the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials and the Washington Monument, the Smithsonian Institution, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Natural History Building, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Gallery, Georgetown, Arlington National Cemetery and the graves of John F. Kennedy and the Unknown Soldier, and Mount Vernon, Washington's home near suburban Alexandria, Virginia. If you have any State Department contacts, try to wangle an invitation to a diplomatic cocktail party. You'll enjoy it, and the guests will be happy to see a new face.
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