Everyone's talking about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. I visited to see it for myself.

The Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was designed to connect the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial with one long, serene visual line.

But today, more people are looking into the pool water than at the monuments it reflects and the history of America it’s meant to frame.

A renovation by the Trump administration, reported to cost around $16 million, aimed to make the pool, which has long been plagued by algal blooms, look cleaner before America’s 250th anniversary.

Instead, weeks after the conclusion of the project, which has come under scrutiny for its no-bid contracts, multimillion-dollar cost, and solutions to the algae growth, the pool has already turned green — again.

Now, the reflection of the 2,028-foot-long pool features visitors looking into the water, police officers and National Guard members monitoring the monument, National Park Service workers working long days to clean up the fast-growing algae, and protesters gathering with signs and chants.

Here’s what I saw when I visited the Reflecting Pool.