7 Surprising Truths About Going to the Top of the Statue of Liberty

Once you reach the crown, you climb to a tiny flat space where you can look out the windows in the statue's crown. The windows are small but still big enough to snap some awesome photos. We went on a rainy day, so some raindrops got in the way of our pictures.

As you're leaving the crown to make your way back down, a ranger will let you feel the "skin of Lady Liberty." There's a ridge that accurately provides an example of how thick the statue is. It turns out that the entire copper structure is only as thick as two pennies put together.