A special look inside the newly restored Washington Monument, set to reopen Thursday 04:20. In our series "American Wonders," we're exploring places that make America wonderful, from majestic ...

A sign announces that the Washington Monument in Washington, remains closed after Tuesday's earthquake, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. A day after an earthquake rattled the nation's capital, officials ...

The Washington Monument will be closed for a third day in a row on Wednesday, June 25, as temperatures continue to climb in ...

The View From the Top: Washington Monument Reopens After 3-Year-Closure Here's info on how to get tickets and what you can see from the top ...

The Washington Monument is reopening Thursday, after three years of renovations to modernize its elevator and construct a new security screening facility. The monument was built to honor George ...

WASHINGTON — Engineers will begin rappelling down the sides of the Washington Monument on Tuesday to check for cracks and other damage from the surprisingly strong East Coast quake last month.

The view from the bottom of the Washington Monument is breathtaking and for the past 37 months, that’s the only view visitors could get. Recent renovations are complete and the elevator doors ...

Memorial plaques inside the monument from each state seemed to be clean and intact, and the view "is really spectacular," he said. The monument was built in two phases between 1848 and 1884.

Tuesday will be the hottest day of the week, with highs expected to reach nearly 100 degrees and feels-like temperatures up ...

“You can imagine someone trying to do that today,” the veteran reporter said of the hours-long standoff on Dec. 8, 1982, after nuclear disarmament advocate Norman D. Mayer drove a truck ...

Restoring the first Washington Monument. To locals, the need for a second restoration campaign was clear. As the Baltimore Sun wrote in 1906, “[The monument] is not only a memorial to Washington ...