The Lincoln Memorial required extraordinary engineering to stand on former marshland. Builders installed 122 enormous ...

The Army will place large metal plating at key points on Washington's streets. That's to better protect them from the ...

The World War II Memorial is located on the National Mall's main drag, between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and can be reached by taking the Metro's Blue, Silver or Orange ...

Fireworks burst above the National Mall, and from left, the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and the U.S. Capitol building during Independence Day celebrations on Thursday, July 4 ...

No tour of Lincoln's Washington would be complete without his memorial, on the Potomac River about a mile west of the museum. Finished in 1922, it was built over a filled-in swamp, in an area so ...