Double-click on the pictures to see the larger views... these were all taken from the top of the Washington Monument... 490 feet up, from all four sides...starting with the Jefferson Memorial (and bridge where the plane went down in the ice), then the Lincoln Memorial (with the WWII Memorial in the foreground), then the White House (and the Ellipse) and then the Capitol Building (with the Smithsonian museums on either side of the National Mall grass area). As many time as I have been to D.C., I've never been up in the Washington Monument. It took 40 years to complete... and uses no mortar to hold it together... the carved stones just balance and rest on each other... 90,000 tons of it. I also went through the Spy Museum and the Holocaust Museum... as well as the outside of the White House.
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