Union Station

It’s a station, certainly, but Union Station is also an architectural masterpiece representative of Washington. Built in 1907 by the architect Daniel Burnham, the place is home to trains, of course, but also to many shops, cafés and restaurants serving so many types of food that you could spend the day there simply for the pleasure of it. Union Station therefore presents itself as a full-scale shopping centre, with over 130 popular labels from Ann Taylor to Victoria’s Secret by way of MAC Cosmetics. All in a vast Beaux-Arts-style concourse with imposing vaults.