Deferring to Secret Service worries about terrorists, the government is deliberately blurring its highest-quality aerial photographs over Washington to hide objects in plain view on the roofs of ...

The Washington Monument opens daily at 9 a.m. Visitors can obtain timed tickets to take a 70-second elevator ride to the observation floor 500 feet above the ground for a spectacular view of the ...

I am among the many journalists, tour guides and travel book authors guilty of describing the Washington Monument as “the world’s tallest free-standing masonry structure.” At 555 feet 5 ...

Surveyors are checking to make sure that the Washington Monument is still 555 feet, 5 1/8 inches tall. The survey is being conducted by the National Geodetic Survey and is the first of its kind ...

Unknown to most passersby, there’s a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument under a manhole near the actual monument. Officially known as “Bench Mark A,” this underground oddity ...