Landmarks
Landmarks include spectacular monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge. They can also include awe-inspiring natural structures including Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls.
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A gold prospector dubbed the peak Mount McKinley in 1896, but Alaskans have historically championed Denali, a name rooted in its Native American history.
After her husband was incapacitated in an accident, Emily Warren Roebling took over supervising the complex construction of the landmark.
These remarkable feats of design and construction transformed the ways people travel, communicate and live.
A little-known chamber concealed behind the head of Abraham Lincoln was intended to contain a shrine to America.
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The first drive-in opened in New Jersey in 1933.
Climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents is considered the ultimate achievement among mountaineers.
In 1934, wind gusts of 231 miles per hour roared over the top of Mount Washington, rattling the weathermen who managed to record it.
Only five U.S. lakes, most of them in the mountainous West, descend more than 1,000 feet into the watery depths.
Though it gets almost no rainfall, the Atacama Desert hosts a surprising amount of life, including a long history of human habitation.
For decades, the iconic American symbol was simply called the State House Bell.
Route 66 got its name in Springfield, Missouri, in 1926 after much debate. Author John Steinbeck later dubbed it the “Mother Road.”
Dwight Eisenhower’s grueling, 62-day cross-country trip planted the seed.
After Pennsylvania’s capital moved to Harrisburg, the state considered tearing down the landmark building.
Route 66 attractions, like the Kan-O-Tex Service Station and the first McDonald’s site, preserve the famous highway’s past.
The landmark on the National Mall sank about a foot over several decades.
It took grassroots efforts to raise the funds and ultimately build the colossal monument in New York Harbor that has come to symbolize freedom around the world.
The White House South Lawn has doubled as a playing field and performance space for over a century.
Yellowstone's stunning natural beauty inspired the 19th-century push to set aside the land, where Indigenous people had been present for millennia.
Multiple landmarks recognize the work and lives of the nation’s first ladies.
