Experts believe the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. sits above a racy secret involving a seductive film star. Getty Images Here’s a titillating tale from the crypt. Experts believe the ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

The woman’s profile is drawn on concrete deep in the undercroft of the Lincoln Memorial. She has dark lipstick, dark eyebrows and dark eye makeup. A cigarette hangs from her mouth. Beside her ...

Mike Litterst stood in the cavernous space under the Lincoln Memorial and pointed out that 40 feet up you could see concrete beams that support the 175-ton marble sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.

Ground broke on the Lincoln Memorial in 1914. Designers wanted the memorial to stand out and be seen from far and wide. They also wanted the monument to have the appearance of being built on a hill.

The National Park Service gave the media a sneak peek at the roughly 50,000-square-foot undercroft beneath the Lincoln Memorial where it is building a new museum. Abdullah Konte/WBJ Preview this ...