Places to go in National Mall.

The monuments, memorials, and the Mall's Smithsonian museums. There are 13 places here.

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Everything in National Mall, by category.

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Lincoln Memorial

Washington, DC · National MallFree

Anchoring the west end of the National Mall, this marble temple frames Daniel Chester French's 19-foot seated Lincoln, who gazes out past the Reflecting Pool toward the…

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National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC · National Mall

One of the great free museums anywhere, sitting right on the Mall in a pink-marble palace with a domed rotunda you could mistake for the Pantheon. Inside hang Leonardo da Vinci's…

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

Washington, DC · National MallFree

An elevator takes you below ground at this Smithsonian museum on the National Mall, where the History Galleries begin with the Middle Passage and slavery. You work your way back…

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Washington, DC · National MallFree

This is the place where the actual machines of flight hang overhead: Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer, and the Apollo 11 command module…

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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Washington, DC · National Mall

The fossil hall at the National Museum of Natural History, at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, runs backward in time. You start at the Rotunda end, with early human…

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Tidal Basin

Washington, DC · National MallFree

Tokyo gave Washington 3,000 cherry trees in 1912, and most were planted around the Tidal Basin, between the Washington Monument and the Potomac. Since 2004, peak bloom (the day…

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Washington Monument

Washington, DC · National MallFree

At 555 feet, this marble obelisk is the tallest thing in the capital, and the eye keeps finding it from every corner of the Mall. Completed in 1888, it wears a faint color seam…

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Washington, DC · National MallFree

Maya Lin's black granite wall descends into the earth and rises again, carved with more than 58,000 names in the order they were lost. Walk the slope and the polished stone hands…

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Washington, DC · National Mall

The 30-by-34-foot Star-Spangled Banner that Francis Scott Key saw over Fort McHenry in 1814 is in a second-floor gallery of this museum on the National Mall. Julia Child's…

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Washington, DC · National MallFree

Dr. King steps forward from a split block of granite here on the northwest rim of the Tidal Basin, carved as if emerging from the rock itself. The line that named the memorial…

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World War II Memorial

Washington, DC · National MallFree

Each of the 4,048 gold stars on the World War II Memorial's Freedom Wall stands for 100 American lives lost. The memorial is beside the Washington Monument, laid out as an oval…

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United States Botanic Garden

Washington, DC · National MallFree

A tropical forest grows under the 93-foot dome of the U.S. Botanic Garden's Conservatory, and a mezzanine runs out over its canopy. Outside, the amphitheater in the gated gardens…

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Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Washington, DC · National MallFree

When construction began on the Jefferson Memorial in 1938, 50 women marched on the White House to keep cherry trees on the Tidal Basin from being uprooted. The next day they…