Stretching from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol Building, the National Mall is a tree- and museum-lined grassy expanse that becomes the focal point of many tourists' DC sightseeing.

At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...

In order to tour the Washington Monument, you need to get tickets. This past MEA break, we got to Washington DC and my son ...

In the 1791 map, the western half of the Mall, from the Washington Monument to where the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials now ...