What's inside the Washington Monument?

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's inside the Washington Monty from a unique perspective: this is VR 180, so if you take your finger or tilt your phone, you can see the top of the Washington Monument and you can pan around with your finger. or see all these flags everywhere, but today I might look a little sweaty because I just ran up the entire steps of the Washington Monument, something that not many people have done and yes, we filmed it and we'll show you some. unique things found inside the steps of the Washington Monument, this has been closed for almost the last two years, so we are the first people to show you a Washington PR experience, but even if you are just looking in your phone Normally, it's going to be a really interesting and hopefully educational video, so come join us inside, we'll see.

The first time I walked into the Washington Monument, an elevator, one of the first people when this building was completed in 1884. the tallest building in the entire world at 555 feet, while in the world, we just took the elevator and it was easy enough to get to the top, we have to go down the stairs later, but Open Sesame, not for me, here we go, oh. look at this, oh my gosh, well, there for you is capital there for the entire Smithsonian that's right along that side on the wall and there's like a huge, so there's no better view, it's raining about 15 people in the elevator and about every hour there are 110 people going up wow very good there is so much water once we got here I was very surprised at the amount of water area there really is a lot of water if you have seen the video we made at the WWII memorial .

You can see all the water that goes underneath and how they have a safety system that pushes all the excess water into the potomac, but yeah, you can see that there's not as much humidity here anymore and they call it kind of a swamp in DC. Yeah, it used to be a swamp, then they had to drain the swamp and have dinner. Yeah well it's crazy that this building is narrower at the top than at the bottom, that's how it was built because it's completely done. of stone right now you can feel your FBR right now so turn on your phone or just look up a lot with your headphones and you can even see the red light flashing so the planes can see that this building is here at night yeah, the light looks huge from here, but it's absolutely outside, you see this little family, it's so old, ooh, is this the largest freestanding masonry structure, so it looks like the tallest in the world, that's crazy, so the building is made entirely of stone, yes it has some small ones, maybe there is a small one?

A little bit of concrete inside these pillars that were put in later, but there's really no concrete in the rest of this building, yeah, it's just made of stone. Now you are looking at what is probably my favorite view, the west side. I mean, we have I know two videos on these right now, if you'd like to watch them there, link below, but we did what's under the Lincoln Memorial and we actually really appreciate what's under there and also the climate that the

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needs to World War II, which is why I like it. Being cool is huge, the people walking next to you look like ants right now, we're like the pyramid that looks like part of the tough Washington Monument and this is what you see, these are the only windows there are, Neil windows like you . come here at night you see a little bit of light inside these very small stables, that's all, but it's enough for you to have a really nice view, you can look out and see things from down here.

An interesting fact about the Washington Monument in August. On the 23rd of 2011, there was actually an earthquake that occurred about 90 miles south of here. A 5.8 earthquake, but up here, at the very top, they could feel it and they were the people they thought about and in fact they fell, what they liked fell. down to the ground here, yeah, there were some visible cracks that were put into this building, did you know that? and they fixed all those cracks obviously there are some things in place that make it a little bit structurally stronger than it was back then so it should be safe it should be fine up here an interesting part of the story that wasn't there its earthquake so I would have liked to end up here so oh yeah that was great so this is a really small space, smaller than I thought here, but there are eight windows they are actually air conditioned which means they are go like this specimen if you're going to sneeze, so it's for the best, you have to wait in line for this.

Now we will go down the stairs to the next room below this one and see. what's down there I don't know there are no windows because you can see from the outside there aren't any but this is the second place you would go well, yes, this is fine, like a star and black that can shake its foundations, but the character it commemorates and illustrates that within a year of having built the building, it was struck by lightning and in fact part of it broke. He's the oldest, he sat down to have these lightning rods put on him and they were done.

They will be replaced in 2012, but it's super interesting to see that they were won and are marked by a lot of lightning, that's cool, what are these little guys? Yes, those are the ones that were bent by lightning like lightning right now in the The exhibition hall that is right under the pyramid doesn't like the structure and we haven't even talked about the current president George Washington, but he was the first president of the United States and was also the commander of the army when they defeated Great Britain. There were only 13 states back then, so he was an incredibly important president and that's why the

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is tall and strong and right in the middle of DC to represent one of the strongest presidents the United States has ever had. .

Construction of the Washington Monument began. in 1848, but after about 20 years they stopped offering enough funding for it and it just sat there for 22 years as a half-finished building, so when you had this Washington Monument it was like it wasn't even half-built, just sitting there over there. for 20 years without any progress being made, that made Washington look bad, like this country was really progressing, if it's a real country, and finally the national parks took over, raised a bunch of money and went to build it, but the complicated thing. The thing is that the quarry that they used, which was here in Baltimore, closed and was no longer there, so they tried to use a different quarry, but the stone had different colors and why that's interesting, it's something that you can even see . which right now, if you're outside and we come to DC, but if you don't pour this and go to the top, you can see the first 50p messy or something like that, you can see that the color is darker than the one on top of that, they're colors different so there's kind of an industry if you've been following our channel for a while you might remember that I have this weird goal of running the stairs building everything.

It's been a while and we didn't have you once. then we showed him the granite we posted a link on our family channel, but I have never considered running the steps of the Washington Monument. You can't go up the stairs. I will make this strange alarm sound. There are probably big security guards inside. there you don't want to mess with the stairwell, all the Eggman oh yeah, there's one interesting thing about the stairwell is that there are one hundred and ninety-three stones from the bottom to the top, they're memorial stones because when they were building it and they're looking for funding, they asked people for funding and said send a stone and some money and we can take your packages out of the building so that specific groups and even countries would send stones and funding that were Then placed inside the staircase, we have some friends in the Department of the Interior and they decided to connect me and you with a very strange request: We are actually going to climb the steps of the Washington Monument, you can check that.

The list that one day you will be able to make Do you want to go with me? Do you want to climb the stairs of this integrability? Yeah, yeah, okay, we're at the end, this is the 1848 stone, laid very gently here, I think. This is the oldest terrible, this is definitely it guys, I can't believe we had to do this, but we'll buy some plates and maybe not run everything, but we'll walk and everything. true, we are on the first plan, you are parking, we arrived around 24, stopping to admire these things, it was usually when everyone was going as fast as they could, this is a shame, so the rule is that these stones must measure three feet by five. foot, but of course there have to be some states that just want to break the rule to show how big and cool they are and the winner of the whole Washington crisis, Minh, in that category is New York, the New York Mets, that New York.

The city, but New York is huge, it's so big that there's no bigger one than it anywhere, of course, leave its name, they say what's really cool, like they're looking, the guy would have a monkey or thanks for This, this is a key moment, we are not. one hundred and forty feet right now, but if you remember when we said before that this was closed for almost 25 years, they ran out of funds and then they started rebuilding it again, well, this is the point where they stopped about one hundred and fifty, you can see here along this line, everything below is 15 feet thick and made of this stone that they just come with their hands, yeah, it's like if you look at some of the edges, look at these cuts.

They're not very well cut, they're just hand cut carved stones and they just threw them in here, but if you notice the walls move and start going inward right there, well, they realized that after 25 years, the designers They started to rebuild this. We decided that if they continue with 15 feet thick all the way it will just collapse on itself, so it actually made more sense to make it narrower and when you get to talking about where we were the windows, it's actually only 18 inches. think about the walls there, so it gets narrower and narrower as you go up, so it's not as heavy, okay, we come to one that is our home, we are from the state of Utah, the only one who wants to have what to wax here and originally this one was made of limestone which isn't the smartest because limestone crumbles but it gives you that bee over there that you can tie on that's how it is on the Utah state flag and I'm so happy that I put real here for you Tom for the granite, they think they need the temple.

I think this is a good point to achieve my goal, run to the top of the building and then go back down, give me a few seconds while I run to the top of the building and go down. I did not do it. I reached the top. It was about 490 feet. It's not the full 555 feet that is the summit, but I did it in a sweat. I ran up the stairs if you want to see what I did. I'm talking about running stairs, reviews actually from my website, so I hope you enjoyed seeing what's inside. I'll show the money, well those explosions, if that was the view, it was a lot of fun, believable, if you're ever in town, IBC, be sure to check it out. and many thanks to the National Park Service for giving us this opportunity to see it there like our public lands throughout the United States.

You can visit your public lands through your lands. Take the time to visit them, tour them and see the history of this. Great, some amazing places around it were great and let us know what you thought about BR 180. I'd like to make a couple more videos with this. I think it's a cool way to look at things, okay?