Monuments, meanwhile, typically pay homage to figures or events. From the memorials dotting Washington, D.C.'s National Mall to the Communist-era statues in Budapest’s Memento Park, these ...

It wasn’t until the early 1830s that serious planning commenced for the Washington Monument, Washington’s first major memorial, which owed its origins to L’Enfant’s drawings. After the ...

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 ...

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

Shlain, an artist, film-maker and author from the Bay Area, sought a more tactile form of storytelling in 2020, when she roamed the Muir Woods National Monument’s ancient redwoods with renewed ...