The Jefferson Memorial glows in soft golden light. Its marble columns rise from the edge of the Tidal Basin, their reflection ...

If you’re driving along the Columbia River Gorge, you might blink twice at the sight of a towering circle of concrete monoliths rising from the rolling sagebrush. It looks like Stonehenge somehow ...

The Washington Monument opened to the public with an elevator. Construction on the massive obelisk began 40 years earlier, in 1848, with private funding, but after a few years, the group building it ...

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Jacob, Judith M., "The Washington Monument: A Technical History and Catalog of the Commemorative Stones," Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2005, pg. 124 ...

The first moon landing will be displayed on screens nearby. Houston, we have a celebration. To honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

More than 150 cracks have been repaired, rainwater leaks have been sealed, and the 130-year-old Washington Monument will reopen Monday for the first time in nearly three years since an earthquake ...