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Clockwise from top left: Enjoy great views of New York City from the open-air 86th Floor Observatory or indoors from the 102nd Floor Observatory of the Empire State Building . Sail under San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and around former maximum-security prison island, Alcatraz , on a Bay Cruise. Get an elevated view of the nation’s capital from the top of 555-foot marble obelisk the Washington Monument , which first opened to the public in 1888. Take a helicopter flight above, drive across or tour inside the imposing Hoover Dam , which spans the Nevada-Arizona border. Gaze up at the monumental Crazy Horse Memorial sculpture in South Dakota’s Black Hills, 75 years in the making and still evolving. See the tallest brick lighthouse in the U.S., Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina, which will reopen for tours in early 2025 following a major restoration. Take a tram to the summit of the tallest monument in the US, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. Be sleepless in Seattle after enjoying exhilarating 360-degree panoramas from atop the Space Needle , built for the 1962 World’s Fair.

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