 towering over the water on a hot summer's day. But I'm not actually headed to the statue itself, as I found out when I linked up once again with district fossil hunter Christopher Barr. It's beautiful and it's very impressive, but the one thing it doesn't have is fossils. If you head across the street instead to the memorial gift shop, an innocuous rectangle no bigger than a pharmacy, you'll find them. They went extinct about 66 million years ago, about the same time as the dinosaurs.