The Best Landmarks in North America

New York

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, with a steel spire and a marble and mural lobby. SUMMIT One Vanderbilt in Midtown Manhattan is an observation space over three floors with mirror rooms and installations, and visitors watch the sunset from its outdoor terrace.

Mexico

The Palacio de Bellas Artes on Eje Central in Mexico City is a marble arts center, built to replace an earlier National Theater, that holds murals, exhibitions and concerts. The Morelia Aqueduct in Morelia, Mexico, is a pink quarry stone aqueduct with 253 semicircular arches over more than 1.7 kilometers, and it is lit at night.

Lighthouses, bridge and memorial

Heceta Head Lighthouse stands on a bluff above the Pacific in an Oregon Coast state park near Florence, and park hosts at its base explain the lighthouse. Portland Head Light looks out over the bay and islands from the rocky coast of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and visitors visit its small museum. The Golden Gate Bridge, a suspension bridge completed in 1937, joins San Francisco to Marin County. The USS Arizona Memorial stands over the wreck of the battleship USS Arizona, which sank in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.