What famous landmarks have you seen?

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This can be anywhere in the world. Also, what famous landmarks would you like to see?

Because I never get to travel, I've only seen two major landmarks in my lifetime, namely Stone Mountain in Georgia and the Alamo in San Antonio.

Some landmarks that I would really like to see are Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the Tower of London, all in London; Notre Dame cathedral in Paris; Rhine Valley in Germany; the Sistine Chapel in Florence; and the Taj Mahal.

I lived in London for 25 years so have seen most of it's famous places/landmarks. I've also been to Whitby Abbey and Windsor castle and to where the battle of Hastings took place.

Notre Dame is FANTASTIC. That's one of the only ones I've seen, and I wasn't even looking for it. We were in Paris and suddenly it was like WOAH, WHAT'S THAT? It's huge, seriously.
I've also seen all the other ones in Paris, of course. (Okay not ALL, I missed a few. But I plan to go back.) One thing people don't mention but you don't wanna miss if you go to Paris: Napoleon's tomb.
Aaand I've seen the Space Needle, of course. (Lived right by it)
And, uuuh...
Hmm, that might be it. XD;; Is Mount Rainier a landmark?
Oh, and I've seen the Hollywood sign.
I wanna see Venice and Vatican City. London too. :3

I visited Stonehenge during the summer solstice (it was too busy so I left before sunrise) but an amazing place, much bigger in real-life than you'd think

I had a college class that part of the component was that we traveled to London for 10 days and those were some of the sites that we saw. For some reason I was really preoccupied with the Ravens.

I've also seen:

Auswitch
Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon (Teotihuacan,Mexico)
That sign in Key West, Fl that says you are 90 miles from Cuba
Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Broadway....pretty much all the sites of New York City.

I've been to BC Place in Vancouver a couple of times, and I've also been to Science Centre in Vancouver, as well.

Here's some I've seen/been to:

Ft Knox (Bucksport ME)
Ft. Popham ( pre Pilgrim Bitish Ft.)
Fanuil Hall
USS Constitution
Harvard College
Empire State Building
World Trade Center, NYC
George Washington Bridge
US Capitol building
Independance Hall (Liberty Bell was still in the Foyer at the time)
Ft. Sumter
Gateway Arch (St. Louis, MO)
Custer Monument/ Little Bighorn bluffs, Montana)
Glacier Natl. Park
Great Salt Lake/ Bonneville Salt Flats
Golden Gate Bridge
Key West Fl. ( I don't recall seeing the above mentioned sign there, but probably saw it)
Sears Tower ( It actually looks smaller than the WTC did)

Big Ben, The Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, The Tower Bridge, The Tower of London, St Mary Le Bow, and St Paul's Cathedral, are all landmarks that I'd like to see, one day.

How long have you got?
Lessee...Grand Canyon (from the air), Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, San Francisco bay Bridge (couldn't find Starfleet headquarters)
Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor, the blow hole, the Polynesian Cultural Center
Washington (pretty much all of it, including all the buildings you find on the money... DC
Florence (too many to mention) Italy, Mount Aetna (from the air)
Roman Colusseum (what's left of it), Ceasar's death place (it's a few feet down) the Vatican, and a few other
places in Rome
The cathedral of Milan, Castle Sforza,
The Eiffel tower, the Champs d'Elessey (pardon my French, especially the spelling), the Paris Opera House, the Musee d'Orsay, the Paris Metro, Notre Dame, Versailles, Les Invalides
The Parthenon, the Agora, the museum in Athens, The theatre of Epidaurus, New Testament Corinth (where all those letters were sent to.., The temple of Posideon
Topkapi Palace, the Porte, the Blue Mosque, the walls of Byzantium (what's left of them)

I'm sure there's others, but that's all I got for now...dang I miss traveling.

I probably shouldn't have called it a sign as that gives people images of a rectangular thing on a pole. I'm not really sure what you would call it....maybe it's a buoy? Here's a pic I found on the internet.

Let's see, pretty much everything in Seattle (Space Needle, troll under the bridge, etc.) and Washington DC (Lincoln Monument, Korean War memorial, etc.).
Devil's Tower.
Mount Rushmore.
Mount Saint Helens.
Crater Lake.
And many more I'm sure some would list but I saw them so many times I consider them insignificant.

Out of those, Crater Lake's my favorite.

the Alamo...

The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
The Fairmont Empress Hotel
Athabasca Oil Sands
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park
Frank Slide
The Columbia Icefields
Royal Tyrrell Museum
Fort Edmonton
West Edmonton Mall
BC Place
Northlands Coliseum or Rexall Place, home of the Edmonton Oilers
The Pengrowth Saddledome, home of the Calgary Lames Boooo
Places I have snowboarded at
Calgary Olympic Park COP
Whistler Blackcomb
Lake Louise Sunshine Banff
Revelstoke Mountain Resort

have seen:

space needle, seattle
bob's java jive [building shaped like coffeepot], tacoma
tower of the americas, san antonio
the alamo, san antonio
washington monument, d.c.
lincoln memorial, d.c.
capitol building, d.c.
tidal basin [cherry blossum trees], d.c.
white house, d.c.
stratosphere tower [under construction at the time], las vegas
luxor hotel, las vegas
capitol records building, l.a.
coit tower, san francisco
golden gate bridge, san francisco
lombard street, san francisco
sleeping beauty's castle, disneyland
wall drug, wall [south dakota]

am too worn-out to wanna go anyplace else.

I forgot Stonehenge when we went to holiday to Cornwall when I was 116

Let me see...

Stonehenge
Table Mountain
Buckingham Palace
The Houses Of Parliament
The Tower of London
Westminster Abbey
Notre Dame
The Eiffel Tower
Nelson's Column
The Parthenon
The amphitheatre at Delphi
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (where I did not, in fact, do that "look, I'm holding up the tower!" photo like about three million other people did )

I'm sure there are more, but I can't recall them just now.