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Originally Posted by SLAG
Am I going to be disappointed sight seeing in the early evening / night time?
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I don't remember how late the museums are opened, but even without that, if you're on the Mall you can see the Capitol building, there's a giant military sculpture in front of it, too. You can walk from there right past the Washington Monument and down to the Lincoln. If you're at the Lincoln and look across the river you can see Robert E Lee's mansion at the top of a hill in the middle of Arlington Cemetary. The built the cemetary around it and let him keep the residence so he would be reminded of all the deaths caused by the civil war. A little south of the Lincoln is the Jefferson. It's very pretty. One of the best looking monuments because it's on a little tidal pool.
Also, since I've been there they built the WW2 memorial, I think right next to the Washington Monument, so you could see that easily. And the Vietnam Vet Wall is a little off the Mall, if you're walking toward the Lincoln it would be on your right between the Washington and Lincoln monuments.
It's a little walk from one monument to another, so it depends how averse you are to walking. Not like a mile, but a five to ten minute walk or so, if I remember. I bet you could see at quite a bit in an hour or two.
The metro that stops on the Mall might not say "The Mall". I think it says something else, so if you take the train you'll need to figure out which stop it is for sure. Also, you probably need to change trains once on the way. It depends how good you are with that kind of stuff, whether you want to do it or not.
Not a lot to eat down by the Mall once the street vedors shut down, so I wouldn't go down there hungry. There's cafeterias in the museums, but I don't know what time they shut down.
But the monuments look cool at night. I never felt a great need to go inside them anyway. The best way to look is from the outside, in my opinion.