Exploring Monuments and Memorials
There are monuments and memorials to former U.S. presidents and other great leaders throughout Washington, D.C. Among the city’s most popular historical figure memorials, you’ll find the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial in the Tidal Basin, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial.
Washington, D.C. is also host to many moving war memorials which honor those who were killed, named missing or fought. Make a plan to schedule trips to see The African American Civil War Memorial, the National World War II Memorial, the Iwo Jima Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and The American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial.
