Hmm. I’da thunk either the Korean War Monument (in/next to the cemetery?) or Monticello would be higher. The cemetery is just a bunch of identical tombstones, w/ the unknown soldier thing and a couple of eternal flames.
IL folk have mentioned Sears Tower and the Chicago skyline. I’ll finetune that a tad and offer the Chicago skyline from the east - from the Adler peninsula, Navy Pier, maybe Oak Street beach - w/ Lake Mich in the foreground and the skyline behind.
Tho for most of IL, the most iconic sight is vast stretches of flat corn and bean fields! :eek:
Do you mean the Marine Corp Memorial/Iwo Jima flag planting statue? The Korean War Monument is in DC and I couldn’t have told you what it looked like before I just googled it.
Sure, Arlington Cemetery is a bunch of identical tombstones, but it’s iconic and shown fairly often in television and film.
Even though Arlington is physically in Virginia, the location that comes into my mind is DC (it is, after all, suburban DC). Monticello is unequivocally Virginia.
Just go with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. The Changing of the Guard makes it recognizable, and you can’t go more than two hours without that happening.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. From memory, I think I recall the Korean War memorial on the mall as a bunch of statues of soldiers, apparently slogging through the muck and mire.
If frequency of film is the criteria, I suggest Williamsburg. Or Jamestown or Yorktown for historical significance. But others may certainly differ.
I used to live in Princeton and nearby, and I never heard of the Edison Tower, though I know about Menlo Park. Unfortunately I think the iconic NJ site is the Meadowlands and the oil storage there. The Asbury Park boardwalk, or Seaside, might be a bit more iconic than Atlantic City.
Nassau Hall might work though.
The Biltmore’s a tough call. Someone else said that, too, but I tend to think it’s more of a regional awareness thing. I’ve lived here for 16 glorious years, but before I arrived, I knew of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. Only after I made my home here, did I become aware of the Biltmore. Like you said, probably splitting hairs.
It’s sad that the one thing I remember from 10th grade (1978) is the Bridge is officially known as the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge
Not a bad guy to name a bridge after William Preston Lane Jr. - Wikipedia.
Yet another Ohio landmark: Cedar Point Amusement Park. People from all over the world go there.
And there are still plenty of Amish in Ohio. Enough to make the Right win elections.
And two that haven’t been mentioned in New York: Times Square and Greenwich Village. I can’t think of anything in N.Y. State, outside of N.Y. City. Niagara Falls really belongs to Ontario. Possibly Fire Island or the Montauk lighthouse.
And Pennsylvania: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.
And Missouri: The Arch. I lived in St. Louis when the Arch was completed. They had some trouble getting the two sides to fit together.
Nothing really comes to mind in NH. Vermont has the Quechee Gorge, but one would be hard-pressed to compare it to the Grand Canyon other than they’re both larger than usual trenches in the ground. Although it might be the state’s most iconic single sight even so; most of the imagery of VT that comes to mind is kinda generic (red barn, white church, sap bucket, etc…).
