"So this week it's Robert E Lee," he said on Tuesday of the rebel general's monument that was ... elderly or crippled. Getty Images This 1851 painting portrays Washington as a simple farmer ...

The plans for the structure began in 1835, as The Washington National Monument Society appointed bonded agents to collect funds from the public for construction of a monument to George Washington.

One of the most tragic shipwrecks on the Washington coast hit Nov. 4, 1875. The Pacific left Victoria, B.C. in the morning ...

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One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ...

Roberts Jr. announced his skepticism about another of Obama’s monument designations — of an underwater preserve larger than ...

Known as "America's front yard," the National Mall is a must-visit during any D.C. trip. Technically extending from the ...

A U.S. district court judge ruled against Republican leaders who sought to bar federal monitors from polling sites in St. Louis County on Election Day. Why do voters in some U.S. states have more ...

We travel to units of the National Park System to see beautiful landscape, learn about history, view amazing wildlife, and to ...

Fencing is erected around the Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent ... [+] Nishimura/Getty Images) The U.S. Capitol, White House, Treasury Department and the vice ...

Two Democratic presidents moved to preserve this rugged terrain by creating a pair of national monuments in southern Utah — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase- Escalante.