The Independence Day fireworks in Washington, DC are the best I've ever seen. I am not adventurous enough to view them from the National Mall, but have preferred to watch them from just across the Potomac River at Gravelly Point and once from a short way down the river at Bolling AFB/Naval Research Lab. The fireworks are so very pretty with the monuments in view. Very festive and fun, especially when you listen to the NPR simulcast of the NSO concert at the Capitol. That said, I will be happily enjoying this year's DC festivities my very favorite way... via cable TV in my air-conditioned, traffic-free living room. ;-)
The most entertaining fireworks by far, though, were at a 4th of July celebration in a small town in the Shenandoah Valley... I dubbed them "Cletus and Bubba's Backyard Fireworks". They were the town's official fireworks display, but I suspect they just sent Cletus and Bubba down to South of the Border (all you I-95 NC/SC travelers KNOW what I'm talking about!) to find the biggest bang-em-up variety pack available. Well, it was some kind of show... not amazing as fireworks go, but certainly entertaining... and we all had a good time ooh-ing and aah-ing at the homegrown display.
Yawl muft be d'gub'ment people.