National Mall - Washington, DC

While we were in Washington, DC. during our October 2013 layover, we walked down the National Mall from the Capitol Building as far west as the World War II Memorial. 

United States Capitol

National Gallery of Art

National Archives

National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Institution Building - The Castle

Department of Agriculture

Washington Monument

The following pictures are of the World War II Memorial just west of the Washington Monument.

HERE IN THE PRESENCE OF WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN, 

ONE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FATHER AND THE OTHER THE 

NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESERVER OF OUR NATION, WE HONOR 

THOSE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICANS WHO TOOK UP THE STRUGGLE 

DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND MADE THE SACRIFICES TO 

PERPETUATE THE GIFT OUR FOREFATHERS ENTRUSTED TO US:  

A NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.

The National Mall is open to the public without an entrance fee.

The National Archives website is http://www.archives.gov/.
The National Art Gallery website is http://www.nga.gov/.
The Smithsonian Institution website is http://www.si.edu/.
The mall website is http://www.nps.gov/nacc/index.htm.