When the owners designed the mall, they wanted it to be more than just a place to shop and eat.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

More than six hundred fifty million people have visited the Mall of America since it opened eighteen years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The largest and most popular shopping mall in the United States is the Mall of America.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

More than five thousand couples have had their weddings at the Mall of America.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The "Phase Two" plan will nearly double the size of the mall.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Another popular part of the mall is the Underwater Adventures Aquarium.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Each year about forty million people visit the Mall of America.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The Mall of America has more than five hundred twenty stores.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

About eleven thousand people work at the Mall of America.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Many people stay several days when they visit the mall.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

(VOICE) Compu-Me is one of several mobile telephone shops at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

The final Earth Day themed event took place Sunday. The Environmental Protection Agency, students and other organizations with ideas for a more sustainable future filled large white tents on the mall.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

"Instead of shopping in just the regular shopping mall we were kind of forced to go to these bargain type shops."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

There will also be a huge fireworks show with more than two thousand five hundred shells exploding over the National Mall.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

And,despite it being played over and over at every shopping mall in the country, it doesn't become commercial."

VOA: special.2010.12.22

Another event that traditionally takes place on the National Mall this weekend is the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

This year,more than one hundred thirty thousand people gathered on the National Mall to hear top writers and poets talk about their work.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

However,most people think of the Smithsonian as the large buildings along the wide grassy area in the center of Washington known as the National Mall.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

Most of them are around the National Mall, near the Voice of America building.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

He says he dreamed of placing just such an instrument on the National Mall.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

It rises between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

It will be the Climate Rally where we'll be inviting people from all walks of life to join us on the National Mall to call on ou."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

We met a woman on the National Mall whose nickname is Charlie.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It is the only District of Columbia memorial on the National Mall.

VOA: special.2009.05.25