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Portraits of plants, animals and people by the world's best amateur and professional photographers. National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

From a Colombian coal mine, scientists uncovered 65-million-year-old remains of the largest snake in the world. Measuring 48 feet long and weighing 2,500 pounds, this massive predator could crush and devour a crocodile. Fossil plants and animals found at the site reveal the earliest known rainforest, the lost world that followed the demise of the dinosaurs. Explore the a full-scale model of Titanoboa and video from the Smithsonian Channel documentary to delve into the discovery, reconstruction, and implications of this enormous reptile. National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

Textiles from the 12th through 20th centuries commemorating the Asian calendar's year of the dragon. Textile Museum 2320 S St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-667-0441

To mark the centennial of the Girl Scouts, a portrait of Juliet Gordon Low, the group's founder, a patent award, a membership pin and photographs of Low when she commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Girl Scouts are on view National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution Eighth and F streets NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

Congolese photographer and videographer Sammy Baloji explores the meaning of memory in an exhibit of collages and photographs of the copper mine industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo before and after independence. National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

This exhibition of paintings and photographs, on loan from the National Museum of the Marine Corps, honors the branch's legacy as a supplier of air support for U.S. troops over a 100-year period. National Air and Space Museum - Smithsonian Institution Sixth Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

Explore the relationship between Native Americans and their horses in this exhibit, which includes a life-size mannequin of a horse in full beaded regalia, rifles and a Sioux tepee. National Museum of the American Indian - Smithsonian Institution Fourth Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

Get $3 Dos Equis and Bud Light beers and $5 margaritas every day -- including weekends -- and all night on Tuesdays. H Street Country Club 1335 H St. NE, Washington, DC

The exhibit, curated by Raquel de Anda, features 10 artists who use a diverse set of practices to engage pressing social and political issues and affect change in their communities and the world at large. Art Museum of the Americas 201 18th St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-458-6016

Along with a handful of jewelry pieces and one robe, the show features beautiful -- and, in this age of Photoshop, surprisingly faithful -- likenesses of members of the Qing dynasty, the royal family of Manchu origin that ruled China from 1644 to 1912. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution 1050 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000