Everyone knows France has the Eiffel Tower and England has Big Ben. What do you consider it for us?
I figure #1 would be the Statue of Liberty?
Some possible others:
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[li]Mt Rushmore[/li][li]Capitol or White House[/li][li]Golden Gate Bridge[/li][li]Empire State Building[/li][li]Hollywood sign[/li][/ul]
Yes, I think the Statue of Liberty might be number 1. Some others that I’d add are:
The Empire State Building
The Pentagon
Disneyland
I think of iconic landmarks as the ones that are instantly recognizable in a photo or even a line drawing, so I don’t think Disneyland qualifies. Does anyone actually know what it looks like?
But you might also add the St Louis Arch, or the Space Needle in Seattle.
You don’t think that this building is recognisable?
Grand Canyon
Las Vegas Strip
Washington Monument.
Would any of the National Parks register? Like Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone (with the Old Faithful geyser) or the Grand Canyon?
I’d say all of those. Also the Lincoln Memorial. The Mississippi River?
Also maybe the Everglades/Florida Keys, although they’re not as famous as most of the others mentioned here.
We have so many castles in the US people probably get them confused 
As a non-septic, I’d say:
Statue of Liberty
Empire State building
Grand Canyon
White House
Route 66 (yeah it’s not really a landmark but it is sort of iconic)
Las Vegas strip
Alcatraz
If I was visiting, those are the places on my list. I’d like to hire a car and do route 66.
I’m Australian, the most iconic landmark I wanted to see first when I went to America was the Statue Of Liberty, then the White House, loved both.
In addition to route 66 being a very well known landmark, I think that the classic sign that adorns it and other US highways would also be instantly identified by millions around the world.
The cartoon version of that building is recognisable, but not that building itself.
No argument that it’s identifiable, no argument that it’s iconic. Does it meet the definition of a “landmark”?, probably not really hence my comments but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t want to drive it.
Gun Shows. They don’t exist anywhere else.
Yes, as soon as I posted that I thought “iconic” or “emblematic” rather than, um, landmarkic.
Yes, the building itself. Many people 30 and younger don’t know the movie version, do know the real one. That one and its siblings are in what seems to be every freaking poster for trips to Disney’s theme parks. Now, will people be able to tell you which one is Disneyland, which one Disneyland Paris and which one Disneyworld? No. But they know it’s “Disney” and that it’s “American” even if it happens to be near Paris, France.
“Miss Libby”, the Vegas Strip, the Hollywood sign, the Grand Canyon, the Empire State Building, the White House, that area in DC with the obelisk and the Lincoln memorial; many of us don’t realize how many monuments are together there until we visit, tho, and many people will know for example that there is a wall with names of people who died in the Vietnam war but won’t know what does it look like, won’t see a picture of it and say “ah, the Vietnam wall” the way they’d say “ah, the Empire State”.
What about the Chrysler building, I see it pop up in many UK films/TV that show New York City? Is it iconic outside the states? Is it iconic outside the US, Canada & UK?
As an American, I’m following this thread in interest to see what our foreign friends think. It looks like the Statue of Liberty has taken an early lead.
Hoover Dam.
And you can take all the dam pictures you want to.
