Do You Know These Famous U.S. Landmarks?

The Lincoln Memorial was built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is in Washington, D.C.

Alcatraz was a prison on Alcatraz Island inside the Golden Gate in San Francisco. It opened in 1934 and closed in 1963.

The Statue of Liberty stands at the mouth of the Hudson River in the harbor of New York City.

The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee. It is built around the former Lorraine Motel, where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

The Brooklyn Bridge, originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, is the oldest suspension bridge in New York. Spanning the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn, it was the world's largest suspension bridge when completed.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota, United States.

Yosemite National Park spans eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera counties in the central-eastern part of California.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is on the east coast of Florida.

Hoover Dam is a dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona. It supplies the western United States with water and electricity.

Until 2009, the Willis Tower was called the Sears Tower. It is a skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. If you count only the ceiling height, it was America's tallest building until the year 2020, when the Central Park Tower reached higher.

Route 66 is a historic road that runs from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Jackson Square is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. To the south, the square initially overlooked the Mississippi River across Decatur Street. On the north side of the square is St. Louis Cathedral. On the other two sides of the square are the Pontalba Buildings, matching red-brick, block-long, 4-story buildings built in the 1840s.

Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings painted in three or more colors are called painted ladies. The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses. The ladies in the photo are near Alamo Square, San Francisco, California.

The United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were debated and adopted in Independence Hall. It is in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 1989 film A More Perfect Union was filmed in Independence Hall.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is in Dallas, Texas. It was previously the Texas School Book Depository, the spot from which President John F. Kennedy is believed to have been shot on November 22, 1963.