Famous Landmarks Flashcards
The Shard
London, England
Burj Al Arab Hotel
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Loch Ness
Scotland (in the Highlands)
Kronborg Castle
Helsingør, Denmark
(immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet)
Angkor Wat
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Moulin Rouge
Paris, France
Mount Rushmore
South Dakota
Lascaux Caves
France (near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne)
Victoria Falls
at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe
Everglades National Park
Florida
The Forbidden City
Beijing, China
St. Paul’s Cathedral
London, England
The Ka’aba
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Buckingham Palace
London, England
Kilimanjaro
Tanzania
Abu Simbel
Egypt
Mont-Saint-Michel
Normandy, France
Arc de Triomphe
Paris, France
The Gerkin
London, England
Oriental Pearl TV Tower
Shanghai, China
Death Valley
California
Machu Picchu
Peru (in the Cusco Region)
Ha Long Bay
Vietnam
Louvre Museum
Paris, France
Big Ben
London, England (at the north end of the Palace of Westminster)
The Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib)
Amritsar, India
The Parthenon (on the Acropolis)
Athens, Greece
Mount Etna
Sicily, Italy
Palace of Versailles
Île-de-France, France (about 20 km southwest of Paris)
Mount Fuji
Japan (on Honshu)
St. Basil’s Cathedral
Moscow, Russia
Millau Bridge
France
Westminster Abbey
London, England
St. Mark’s Basilica and Campanile
Venice, Italy
Statue of Liberty
Liberty Island in New York Harbor
Tower Bridge
London, England
Sistine Chapel
Vatican City
Christ the Redeemer
On Corcovado overlooking Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Iguazu Falls
Argentina
Petra
Jordan
The Great Pyramid (and the Great Sphinx)
Giza (in Greater Cairo), Egypt
Giant’s Causeway
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Notre-Dame (the most famous one)
Île de la Cité, Paris, France
Leaning Tower
Pisa, Italy
Colosseum
Rome, Italy
Pompeii (and Mount Vesuvius)
Italy (near Naples)
Petronas Twin Towers
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Cloud Gate
Chicago, Illinois
Brandenburg Gate
Berlin, Germany
Trevi Fountain
Rome, Italy
Windsor Castle
Windsor, England (in Berkshire)
Potala Palace
Lhasa, Tibet
(former Winter Palace of the Dalai Lama)
Burj Khalifa
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Freedom Tower
New York City (at “Ground Zero”)
Times Square
New York City
Table Mountain
South Africa (overlooking the city of Cape Town)
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican City
The Grand Canyon
Arizona, United States
Empire State Building
New York City,
Pompidou Centre
Paris, France
CN Tower
Toronto, Ontario
The Little Mermaid
Copenhagen, Denmark
Alhambra
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Tivoli Gardens
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sacre Coeur
Paris, France
Yellowstone National Park
Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho too.
Bridge of Sighs
Venice, Italy
Ponte Vecchio
Florence (or Firenze), Italy
Mount Everest
Nepal and China (Tibet Autonomous Region)
Neuschwanstein Castle
Bavaria, Germany
Space Needle
Seattle, Washington
Wailing Wall (or Western Wall)
Jerusalem, Israel
Guggenheim Museum
There are several! The most famous two are the one in New York City and the one in Bilbao, Spain.
Taj Mahal
Agra, India
Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Australia
Newgrange
County Meath, Ireland
Capitol Hill
Washington, D.C.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Jerusalem, Israel
The Mo’ai
Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Blue Mosque
Istanbul, Turkey
Chichen Itza
Yucatán, Mexico
Hagia Sophia
Istanbul, Turkey
The Terracotta Army ( Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum)
Xi’an, China
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
Matterhorn
Switzerland and Italy
The Pentagon
Arlington County, Virginia
Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower)
Chicago, Illinois
Spanish Steps
Rome, Italy
La Sagrada Familia
Barcelona, Spain
Gateway Arch
St. Louis, Missouri
Redwood National and State Parks
California
The Kremlin
Moscow, Russia
Alcatraz
off the coast of San Francisco, California
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Arizona (near the border with Utah)
Bran Castle
Transylvania, Romania
The Blue Lagoon
Iceland (near Reykjavik)
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, California
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
Manneken Pis
Brussels, Belgium
Rialto Bridge
Venice, Italy