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NASA's hardest-working space shuttle lands in Virginia. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly, VA | 202-633-1000

There's no party in Washington like the Boomerang Party Yacht, which sails up and down the Potomac River while a DJ spins and shots and frozen drinks flow. Washington Harbour 3050 K St. NW, Washington, DC

Models of mousetraps show the different patents inventors submitted during the 19th century. Smithsonian American Art Museum - Smithsonian Institution Eighth and F streets NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

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

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 entire museum space -- walls, floor, escalator sides -- will be wrapped in text-printed vinyl by the artist, immersing visitors in a hall of voices that address conflicting perceptions of democracy, power and belief. Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden - Smithsonian Institution Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000