I sometimes forget how relatively new everything is in the US.

If you look carefully, you can see a wrestling ring being erected in front of it.

I keep forgetting DC was a literal fucking marsh at one point

Such a pretty meadow ruined.

Isn't it incredible how humans want to turn a beautiful earth into a shitty hellhole.

I'd take that view vs. the reflecting pool.

I would have thought there'd be roads.... DC's main roads were laid out in the early to mid 1800s....

Around the same time, and by the same designer that did Indianapolis. Everyone at the time thought he was crazy for putting in absolutely enormous roads. Turned out that he was right to do so.