I had the fortunate experience of getting a tour of the library at Catholic University and the basilica there. I had no idea there was such an impressive church in DC! And it is rarely advertised, which should be a crime.

But we started off walking the grounds at Catholic University.

We really wanted to spend some time reading so I got a bit of quality time in with George R. R. Martin!

I still got a good view of the basilica and got to see some interesting books. I do love the stacks in libraries!

After a successful library trip (where both reading and napping occurred), we walked across the yard to see the basilica.

The inside was gorgeous. I don’t know how this doesn’t get put on lists of places to see when visiting DC. I mean, I know it isn’t exactly near a lot of other locations that are hot spots, but it shouldn’t be forgotten just because of that!

The crypts under the church didn’t really have a lot of dead bodies but it did have a lot of columns. And I got to meet the pope!