What's 20 feet tall, black and gray all over and tapered at the top? A miniature version of the 555-foot-tall Washington Monument, only it's not in the nation's capital. It's in Richmond. The granite ...

Few structures represent the United States as powerfully as the Washington Monument. At the center of Washington, D.C., the impressive marble obelisk (555 feet tall and 55 feet wide) pays grand ...

Authorities did not say how long the restoration process would take. The Washington Monument was temporarily closed, police said, after a man vandalized the national landmark with profanities and red ...