The Washington Monument

The Holocaust Museum

The Jefferson Memorial

Thomas Jefferson

The Tidal Basin, The White House, and The Washington Monument

The Bureau Of Engraving And Printing - the money factory

The Kennedy Center

The Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial

Civil War soldiers on the Building Museum - Click to animate.

Inside the Washington Monument

The floor in the elevator lobby.

The windows are tiny and almost invisible from the ground.

The monument was funded by donations,and was contructed from 1848-1854, and 1876-1884. Lack of funds forced the construction to halt from 1855 to 1875. During that time it sat as an ugly hollow stump, exposed to the weather. Today you can see the discontinuity in color about 1/3 of the way up.

The interior is lined with hundreds of stones provided by major donors to the construction fund. Volunteers clean the stones.