The Lincoln Memorial took 8 years to build and has a huge statue of Abraham Lincoln that is 19 feet tall.
The Jefferson Memorial is surrounded by beautiful cherry blossom trees, which were a gift from Japan in 1912.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial has a statue called the “Stone of Hope” and a famous quote by Dr. King: “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
The Korean War Veterans Memorial has 19 statues of soldiers, but you can only see 18 at once because of how they are arranged.
The World War II Memorial has 56 pillars, one for each U.S. state and territory, and a beautiful fountain in the middle.
The National Mall, where many monuments are located, is about 2 miles long, stretching from the Capitol Building to the Lincoln Memorial.
