Travel reporter Natalie B. Compton asked gift shop owners what items were selling fast. (Video: Monica Rodman/The Washington Post) Despite reports of an empty downtown D.C. still gutted by the ...

Yet I rarely browse around a gift shop and often leave a touristy craft market empty-handed. Instead, I’ve found that some of my most treasured travel mementos come from an unlikely but everyday ...

Alster’s love of Washington is evident—from crisp note cards featuring ... you likely can’t read—this place will make you feel as if you’re shopping for souvenirs in a foreign land. But you won’t have ...

Hundreds of thousands of visitors will be in Washington, D.C., on January 20 for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. In addition to watching the swearing-in on the steps of the ...

Before you go to the shopping mall, how about a trip to the National Mall? Gift shops at Smithsonian museums are packed with classic gifts like jewelry, ornaments, books, home goods and apparel ...

The nation's budget is far out of balance, and it seems like the story is the same for Capitol's two gift shops. According to a new report from the Hill, the two gift shops located inside the U.S ...

Bruce is a manager at a souvenir shop in Washington DC. He's reduced the prices of all the shop's Trump stock to encourage the public to snap up the remaining items. It's all to make way for lots ...

In the mid-1980s, the use of the term “Presidents Day” instead of “Washington’s Birthday” spread across the country, spurred by stores advertising ... so these souvenirs, along with ...

people are buying it.” Luke Wilbur has noticed the same. Wilbur, 56, used to own Washington DC Gift Shop on Pennsylvania Ave. The pandemic forced him to close, and now he runs DCgiftShop.com.

He and a few of his buddies from Berry College in Georgia are walking around the Washington Welcome Center, a privately-owned store packed with D.C. souvenirs and political memorabilia.