Freedom Plaza

Named in honor of Martin Luther King Jr, who penned his ''I have a Dream'' speech at the Willard Hotel on this plaza, the stone center has a huge map of Pierre L'Enfant's original plan for the City of Washington. At the west end is one of D.C.'s infinite quantity of equestrian statues, this one of Kazimierz Pułaski, an American Revolutionary War general from Poland, who once saved George Washington's life, and who is known as the ''Father of American cavalry''.