- No visit to Washington, D.C. would be complete

without a visit to the National Mall.

And toady we're going to walk from the capitol

all the way down to the Lincoln Memorial.

On our walk we're visiting dozens of famous

buildings, and monuments, and memorials.

And our expert is sharing the significance about each one.

Beautiful.

^- So this is the Smithsonian Castle in back of us.

^It was designed by James Renwick,

^and erected in 1855

to house most of the major collections of the

Smithsonian Institution when it was just getting started.

- Oh cool, there's the Washington Monument.

- The people who put up the Washington Monument

wanted to demonstrate a sort of ideology of the man

rather than draw our attention to the man himself.

^- We are headed into the Lincoln Memorial.

^I feel so small.

^This space is huge!

This is amazing.

So cool, he's larger than life.

It's just amazing to see this sculpture

carved out of marble.

It's incredible.

- Every person who comes on this tour

will walk away with a more solid understanding

of how the National Mall fits into the larger fabric

of the city of Washington, D.C.

All sorts of old and new places that bring us back

to understanding the sort of national American experience.