USA
18 buildings
Statue of Liberty
A gift from France, designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The framework was engineered b...
Fallingwater
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright over a waterfall. The cantilevered terraces extend 15 feet ...
Golden Gate Bridge
Spans 1.7 miles across the Golden Gate strait. The towers stand 746 feet tall. The cables ...
Alcatraz
Located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Held 1,576 prisoners over 29 years. Al Capone w...
Mount Rushmore
Features the faces of 4 presidents carved into granite. Each face is 60 feet tall. Sculpto...
Willis Tower
Stood as the tallest building for 25 years at 1,451 feet. 110 floors with 16,100 bronze-ti...
Empire State Building
Built in 410 days during the Great Depression. 1,454 feet tall with 102 floors. Over 30 pe...
One World Trade Center
Stands at 1,776 feet, referencing the year of American independence. The tallest building ...
Chrysler Building
Briefly the tallest building at 1,046 feet before the Empire State surpassed it. The Art D...
Guggenheim New York
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The spiral ramp ascends a quarter mile. Wright wanted visi...
Mesa Verde
Over 4,700 archaeological sites including 600 cliff dwellings. The Ancestral Puebloans liv...
Brooklyn Bridge
The first steel wire suspension bridge ever built. Its main span stretches 1,595 feet over...
Hoover Dam
A concrete arch-gravity dam in Black Canyon. The largest concrete structure on Earth when ...
Space Needle
Built for the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair in under 400 days. Stands 605 feet tall on a tripod...
Gateway Arch
The tallest monument in the United States at 630 feet. Also the tallest arch in the world....
Glass House
The Glass House by Philip Johnson, his own home for 56 years. Transparent walls face the l...
Seagram Building
The definitive modernist skyscraper by Mies van der Rohe. Bronze I-beam mullions run up th...
Walt Disney Concert Hall
A concert hall in curved stainless steel by Frank Gehry. Home of the Los Angeles Philharmo...