Skye Lounge is located just footsteps away from the World Bank and only two blocks from the White House. It is a convenient stop for a DC tourist and an exciting destination point for locals. Only a ½ block from the Farragut West metro (Orange line): simply exit on the 18th Street side and walk to the corner of 19th Street and I Street. Skye Lounge features five independently run plasma TVs, 20-foot floor-to-ceiling windows, and plush leather couches that line the perimeter of the venue with elevated, bench-like seating.

Located in the heart of our nations capital, Hard Rock Cafe's "Embassy of Rock-n-Roll" opened its doors on January 1, 1990 and has been creating raving fans ever since! Conveniently located next to Fords Theater, across from the FBI building, and just a short walk from Metro Center, The White House, Capital Hill, and the Smithsonian Museums, Hard Rock Cafe is both a perfect stop on your sight seeing adventure and a unique late night hang out for DC locals.

Feel the buzz of getting high up where the nation's most important monuments and spectacular landmarks are all around you at our 11th-floor rooftop terrace bar. Be outed when you step onto the terrace and cozy down in bold velveteen red banquettes and steel-framed daybeds, or make yourself comfortable in chocolate high-back wicker lounge chairs under a majestic red-and-white awning with glossy ceiling fans. An outdoor bar paneled in fresh green grass provides direct access to seasonal sips to go with the sunshine or sunset, and toast to unadulterated panoramas of the cityscape.

This is K Street's top-of-the-line club where luxury amenities are paired with the latest technologies to create an unbelievable experience. The club is split into three separate areas (one main dance floor, flanked by roped-off tables that go for up to $1,000 a pop), the lounge is a blend of clean lines and contemporary décor (the leather-upholstered seating was actually designed to be danced on) mixed with classic elegance, thanks to the mesmerizing chandeliers hung from the 22-foot ceilings.

Lux is a first-of-it's-kind luxury lounge in the revitalized East End, with four levels of elegant decor and party space. Enjoy large 18 foot ceilings, plasma screens and marble bars as you dance the night away to everything from the best house and Top 40 to classic jazz and neo-soul. Stop by each week for celebrity guests and DJs, as well as special events such as wine tastings.

For a place with a name like Ultrabar, they truly do have a superhuman line-up of events. Hosting a varied array of parties per week in the club's four bars, there is no shortage of dance mayhem. For starters, there's a Ladies' Night every Friday, monthly theme parties in their Bedroom Bar (which is exactly what it sounds like), 4Play Thursdays featuring international house DJs and even the occasional all-ages hip-hop show.

In the tradition of all the best clubs, Eighteenth Street Lounge has no sign marking its small door next to the mattress store on 18th St. NW, only a small plaque that can take years to notice. Opened by DJs in 1995, the Lounge has always been all about the music, which has kept it from becoming just another pretentious, passing hotspot full of couches and pretty people. International beats, often from artists on the Lounge's record label and the co-owner's Thievery Corporation are spun on the first floor, while live soul or steel drums perform upstairs.

As one of D.C.'s quintessential gay venues, Cobalt has been consistently popular for decades for its dance floor upstairs and mellow lounge on the primary floor. The club draws in the masses on weekend nights with nationally recognized DJs, but even on a Tuesday evening crowds come in for the regular happy hour specials. During the day, the building sits unassumingly on the corner of R and 17th Sts., but on a weekend night, you can't ignore the line of club-goers and smokers outside.

Named after Napoleon's wife, Josephine's is as opulent as you would expect. The sofas and tables look like they were borrowed from Versailles. Even the entryway is dwarfed by an enormous crystal chandelier. To get in, dress to the nines. If you do get past the requisite red velvet ropes, the servers and bartenders all look like models and there's a strict guy-to-girl guest ratio. Two rooms play house and hip-hop respectively, and you can even take a spin on the dancing poles. The crowd is international, and generally flush, as bottle service here is quite pricey.