The U.S. Capitol Crypt is home to 40 Doric columns, a dozen statues, and no human remains. It’s also a lot less far off the beaten track than your regular run-of-the-mill underground vault ...

Capitol lies an intriguing feature known as the ... Yet, the exact contents of this mysterious capsule continue to elude us, as its precise location has been lost. This forgotten relic of American ...

You've heard of "Tales from the Crypt." But how about tales from the ... Congressional Cemetery, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, is one spooky spot. Visitors can wander the graveyard this time ...

He says that filming in the U.S. Capitol is unusually difficult because ... to get into the center of spaces like the Rotunda and the Crypt and look straight up," he says. "In the case of the ...

For years, social media users have claimed the U.S. Capitol contains a tomb that was originally built for George Washington, the first U.S. president, but was never used and remains empty.

The Munn family from Borger, Texas, was among some of the first to enter the Capitol on January 6, climbing through a broken window and making their way through the crypt and the visitor center ...

As part of a year-long investigation into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The Washington Post analyzed more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building, from the Crypt to the ceiling of ...

Robert E. Lee was removed from the US Capitol overnight Sunday, Gov. Ralph Northam’s office announced. Lee’s statue had been one of 13 statues in the Crypt of the Capitol, representing the 13 ...