Avi Kwa Ame, also known as Spirit Mountain, as seen across the desert from an area near the Castle Mountains in February 2016. President Biden is declaring the area as a national monument. Zuma Press, Inc./Alamy hide caption
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Tourists visit Mount Rushmore National Monument on Wednesday. President Trump is expected to visit the federal monument in South Dakota and give a speech before a fireworks display on Friday. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. government has partially shut down; more than 800,000 federal workers are affected. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
A Canadian mining firm says it will begin exploration work soon on land that was previously part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Douglas C. Pizac/AP hide caption
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd in Birmingham, Ala., in 1966. President Obama has designated an historic civil rights district in Birmingham as a national monument. JT/AP hide caption
Rough seas prevented the NOAA's Okeanos Explorer from collecting data in the the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in February. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration hide caption
Take it one syllable at a time: Papahānaumokuākea
For Vernon Lee of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a national monument designation for Gold Butte would be the next best thing to having the U.S. government return the land to his people. Kirk Siegler hide caption
People gather to look at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Orlando nightclub shootings in front of the historic Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the West Village, on June 13, in New York. Kathy Willens/AP hide caption
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell speaks in front of the Stonewall Inn in 2014 to announce a National Park Service initiative to identify historic sites related to the struggle for LGBT rights. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Long A Symbol, Stonewall Inn May Soon Become Monument To LGBT Rights
On Equal Pay Day, President Obama marks the designation of a women's equality national monument. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption