You're practically the only one.
Statistics released Tuesday by the D.C. tourism bureau found a record setting 18.9 million people visited the District in 2012. And what were these visitors doing -- and not doing -- while in town?
Check out our slideshow of the most and least visited attractions in D.C. -- story continues below...
Most And Least Visited D.C. Attractions In 2012
Most Visited: National Museum of Natural History - 7,600,000 visitors(01 of10)
Open Image ModalWhy? Sources say dinosaurs are awesome. (credit:Alamy)
Second Most: National Air and Space Museum - 7.6 million visitors(02 of10)
Open Image ModalWhy? Sources say airplanes are awesome. (credit:Alamy)
Third Most: Lincoln Memorial - 6.2 million visitors(03 of10)
Open Image Modal2012's "Lincoln mania" is sure to spill over into 2013. (credit:Alamy)
Fourth Most: National Museum of American History - 4.8 million visitors(04 of10)
Open Image ModalWhy? Because America. (credit:Alamy)
Fifth Most: Vietnam Veterans Memorial - ~4.4 million visitors(05 of10)
Open Image ModalThe Vietnam Veterans Memorial sees a large influx of tourists year-round, but Memorial Day Weekend brings the masses to this homage to fallen Americans. (credit:Alamy)
Fifth Fewest Visitors: Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum - ~162,000(06 of10)
Open Image ModalSitting adjacent to the HuffPost D.C. offices, this museum doesn't seem to get the same foot traffic as the attraction across the street -- the White House. (credit:Alamy)
Fourth Fewest: Theodore Roosevelt Island - ~150,000 visitors(07 of10)
Open Image ModalThird Fewest: Frederick Douglass House - ~53,000 visitors(08 of10)
Open Image ModalThe National Park Service preserves the Anacostia home once owned by the prominent 19th century African American. (credit:WikiMedia)
Second Fewest: Anacostia Community Museum - ~31,000 visitors(09 of10)
Open Image ModalFewest: Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site - ~6,600 visitors(10 of10)
Open Image ModalThe house where the civil rights activist spent her last twelve years sits near Logan Circle, but attracts the fewest visitors -- by far -- than any other federal tourist attraction in the city. (credit:WikiMedia)
Some federal attractions yielded one or two or 7 million more visitors than others, according to the Washington Examiner.
The top tourist attractions come as absolutely no surprise -- the free National Museum of Natural History, which had 7.6 million visitors, and the National Air and Space Museum, which had 6.8 million.
Mr. Lincoln's monument is sitting pretty in the third slot with just under 6.2 million visitors -- movies about Lincoln's fictional thwarting of vampires and another, more popular film about the last four months of his life, may have helped spark interest in our 16th president.
Rounding out the bottom of the list are attractions that may surprise you, perhaps because you've never heard of some of them. The aforementioned Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, located near Logan Circle, drew the fewest tourists, a measly 6,646, just a smidge fewer than the average attendance at a Washington Mystics basketball game. Drawing a few more, the Anacostia Community Museum hosted 31,168 visitors last year.
Still, the 18.9 million people who took a page out of their history books (sometimes literally) and visited the city named for our first president, represented a 5.5 percent increase from 2011.
More importantly, those tourists added $4.8 billion to the local economy and went along in supporting the more than 75,000 District jobs in the tourism industry, according to the Examiner.
Did your favorite attraction fail to make the top of the list? Let us know what you think!
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified the museum in slide 9 as having once been named The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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