And though Shah Jahan's famous memorial in Agra is far better known, the Ajanta Caves are hugely popular, particularly with Indians, who see them as eloquent testimony to their country's immense and unbroken history.
If you buy the argument in James Madison's famous "Memorial and Remonstrance" (1785) that forcing a citizen to "contribute three pence" in taxes to a religious organisation will grease a slippery slope toward full ecclesiastical establishment and the decimation of religious freedom, you'll side with the ACLU.
Major cities across the country from New York to Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles may boast some of the most famous memorial museums, however, there are lesser known museums nationwide.
They included poems which became some of the most famous memorials to the war, including Anthem for Doomed Youth, and Dulce et Decorum Est, with its savage description of a man dying of gas poisoning and the lines: "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory/The old Lie; Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori".
The air is so bad in Kolkata, for example, that the city's most famous monument, the Queen Victoria Memorial, has turned yellow from fumes and smog.
So it ended, but not before the famous Kennedy memorial programme on November 23 1963.
A veteran Conceptualist photographer, Mr. Gossage has orchestrated a dry but sly installation that intersperses his own oblique, fragmentary photographs of famous American memorials (shot on surveillance film using a hand-made telephoto lens) with beautiful, mid-19th-century photographs of Egyptian archaeological sites by the German photographer Vogel.
Many of the leaders and more famous figures in Memorial — activists, scholars, artists, and writers — ended up, at least for a while, in political, or quasi-political, positions.
Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive.
So, yes, any 36 hours in Washington should include trips to all those famous buildings and memorials, but it should also include excursions to places that perhaps if less famous, are all the more interesting.
The most famous and most visited memorials are the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Rushmore; Ford's Theatre and Petersen House (where he died) in Washington and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, located in Springfield, Illinois, not far from Lincoln's home and his tomb.
