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Thirty-two models of 19th century patents. Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

Sip on exotic $4 sojutinis (martinis made with soju, a Korean rice liquor) or liquor drinks and $3 Kirin, Sapporo and Tiger beers. Fill up on steamed or pan-fried dumplings ($3) filled with shrimp, meat or vegetables. Mandu 453 K St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-588-1540

Radius offers a $5 beer-and-pizza happy hour between 5 and 7 every weekday, all day on Saturday and Sunday and all night on Mondays. Radius Pizza 3155 Mount Pleasant St., Washington, DC

Oyamel's happy hour features discounted margaritas, beer and tacos. Oyamel 401 Seventh St. NW, Washington, DC

The lower half of George Washington's dentures, as well as the first president's last remaining tooth, are displayed. Mount Vernon 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy., Alexandria, VA | 703-780-2000

Rare artifacts and pieces of mail sent or salvaged from the doomed vessels. National Postal Museum - Smithsonian Institution 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington, DC | 202-633-5555

Internationally renowned sculptor Chakaia Booker exhibits her rubber tire-based sculpture outside the museum along New York Avenue as part of a series of changing installations of contemporary works by women artists. National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC | 202-783-5000

A collection of stone and gilt bronze Buddhist sculptures highlight two flourishing ages, the late Six Dynasties and the High Tang (6th to 8th century). The exhibition's dramatic focus is the monumental Cosmological Buddha: a life-size stone sculpture covered in intricate representations of the earthly realms. It is the only one of its kind on the world. Freer Gallery of Art - Smithsonian Institution Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

The posh, attractive little lounge at the Avenue Suites hotel offers an interesting happy hour with $4 seasonal punch, $4 bottled beer and a $4 cocktail from the house list, $5 red and white wines, and $6 flatbread and paninis. If the weather's nice, don't miss the secluded little terrace. A Bar 2500 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (inside the Avenue Suites Hotel), Washington, DC | 202-464-5610

All drinks are two-for-one between 5 and 9 p.m., one of the best deals in town. Order a gin and tonic or a pint of one of the numerous local beers on draft -- such as Lost Rhino, Port City or Chocolate City -- and you're looking at a pair of drinks for around $5. Want some higher-end vodka or a fancy rum drink? The bartender will cut you a two-for-one deal as well. DC Reynolds 3628 Georgia Ave. NW, Washington, DC | 202-506-7178