Inspired by the underwhelming landmark thread... what is the best landmark you've visited?

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Just that really.
Ive got a couple...
The Eiffel Tower
Pompeii
Mount melleray

Probably Scarborough castle. It was foggy and cold, seemed very eerie and awesome.

La Sagrada Familia - Barcelona cathedral.oh my god it was like something from another world!

Yuantong temple in Yunnan China. Even the guide book was meh. It is charming and beautiful.

St Mark's Basilica
Yellowstone national park (not sure if that counts as a landmark!)
Christ the Redeemer
Grand Canyon (again sorry if it doesn't count)
Petra, Jordan

Sigria in Sri Lanka. Terrifying rickety ladder to get up to the top - but genuinely amazing (even without Duran Duran singing on the top)

Anglican cathedral in Liverpool.

On the heels of the other thread I was very impressed with Stonehenge.

the pyramids - so iconic and breathtaking (despite being surrounded by rubbish!)

The twin towers in 2000

Maybe not landmarks per se, but I've really enjoyed New York City, London, Tintagel, Bath (especially the Abbey), the area around Hardy's birthplace in dorset, parts of the Cotswolds, and the North York Moors. Closer to home the northern and southern Gulf Islands in Canada are lovely - pristine and peaceful.

Landmark-wise, Durdle Door was very cool, the white cliffs, the chalk man & his giant willy, loads of London buildings (the V & A, parliament, St Paul's, Sir John Soanes' museum).

Rome!! Anything in Rome was fabulous. I love Paris but found Rome on another level completely.

Sistine Chapel was awe inspiring and literally out of this world. Very peaceful inside.

Guilin in China was wonderful when we went about 20 years ago - Ive heard its been ruined. It has amazing hills all around and we took a river cruise.

For me I found Arches national park in Utah . I was expecting to be bored.

The temples of Karnak and Hatshepsut in Luxor. Abu Simbel was .

New York is was impressed by too. Just so many big buildings!

The Sagradia Familia blew me away as well

Bloody hell i copied and pasted and it lost all the emojis and that just looks like I'm drunk.

Oddlookineyes it's the most amazing place and yes, I had Save A Prayer going through my head the whole time. What a sense of achievement to get to the top! DH scoffed that Simon & co were probably helicoptered in 🙄

Jerusalem in general. I'm not religious, but the sense of history there was palpable. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre really moved me, especially with all the incense wafting. The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem had nothing like the same feel. The Garden of Gethsemane too, I found beautiful.

The Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, it is just beautiful, as are the Alhambra gardens in Spain.

Overwhelming for all the wrong reasons was Dachau, I felt ill for days afterwards, it just drained everything from me.

One place I never gave much thought to was Glastonbury Abbey, but then I took a tour of Americans there and one woman couldn't stop crying and thanking me for bringing her there, she said she felt overwhelmingly close to God, it made me see just how personal our perspective of places can be.

Oh, and The Pantheon in Rome, I could literally sit in there all day.

La Sagrada Familia was out of this world, I couldn't put into words how amazing and breathtaking it was.
We visited El Djem in Tunisia and that was awesome too.
The views from the Empire State building are spectacular as well.

Vasa Museum Stockholm. Unbelievable and jaw dropping.

Carrick a Rede rope bridge. Truly amazing (and scary).

Much to our surprise Mount Rushmore. We thought it would be really tacky but it was really quite special. We were I think very lucky to have visited on a very quiet day and could take our time looking around.

Lots of amazing places are spoiled simply by the volume of people visiting (Lake Louise was a good example of that, just overstuffed with coachloads of tourists) or by the tourist industry surroundings (the town of Niagara Falls is incredibly tacky, totally took away the majesty of the falls for me).

The Alhambra in Granada is the most beautiful place I've been to.

I was also very impressed by Borobudur in Indonesia when I went 30 years ago, but apparently it's turned into a real tourist trap these days.

I also found the Alhambra breathtaking , we went as early as we could to avoid crowds.
Jerusalem- for the history , just the feel of the place, like you'd gone to another age.

The library in Glasgow art college, by Mackintosh. Before it was burnt down. Also the Burrell collection.

Oh yes, and the Pantheon as well

Gorges du Verdon and the lavender fields at the end - the beauty made me cry!

The salt mines in Krakow

Auschwitz and Dachau. Not breathtakingly beautiful but so, so sad and the enormity of the suffering is still palpable. You come out knowing that we should never allow that to happen in this world again.

The Eiffel Tower
Ercolano
Neuschwanstein
Edinburgh Castle
The Colosseum

Even though I live close to London/spend a lot of time there, so many of it's buildings and landmarks impress me everyday. The sight of the buildings and lamdmarks along the river and up to the HoP will always be my favourite.