3.Here is the "Mona Lisa" next to a copy painted by one of da Vinci's students. The copy is better preserved, so we can more ...

But for Clifford, Mount Rushmore is perfect, just as it is. “I think it’s the most beautiful place in the whole world. Never will be another thing like it.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the images of four U.S. presidents into Mount Rushmore on Oct. 4, 1927. The effort employed 400 people and took 14 years to complete.

AP Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor, at work on the model for Mount Rushmore in his studio near the Black Hills area of Keystone, S.D. circa 1930s. Underwood & Underwood/Corbis ...

By Jeremy Bender Feb 15, 2016, 8:22 AM PT Add us on Wikimedia Commons Completed during the height of the Great Depression, the carving of Mount Rushmore took nearly 14 years to complete.

It's not exactly "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," but South Dakota's famous Mount Rushmore does have a bit more going on than meets the eye. In the 2007 movie, Benjamin Franklin Gates, played ...

Mount Rushmore is east-facing and the pupil reflects sunlight, making it seem lifelike. No one, not even Borglum, could envision what the mountain would become.