List of historic civil engineering landmarks
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The following is a partial list of historic civil engineering landmarks as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers since it began the program in 1964. The designation is granted to projects, structures, and sites in the United States (National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks) and the rest of the world.
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International landmarks
- Acquedotto Traiano-Paolo, Rome, Italy (built by the Romans)
- Banaue Rice Terraces, Banaue, Ifugao, the Philippines
- Eddystone Lighthouse, off Plymouth, England
- Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
- Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
- Kavanagh Building, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Panama Canal, Panama
- Ponte Maria Pia Bridge, Oporto, Portugal
- Salginatobel Bridge, Shiers, Grisons, Switzerland
- Sweet Track, England (the world's oldest-known engineered roadway)
- Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia
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United States landmarks
- Blue Ridge Parkway, running from Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Shenandoah National Park
- Bonneville Dam
- Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan/Brooklyn, New York City
- Cape Cod Canal, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
- Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena, California
- Columbia River Highway
- Ellicott's Stone, Mobile, Alabama
- Espada Acequia (Piedras Creek Aqueduct), San Antonio, Texas
- First concrete pavement, Bellefontaine, Ohio (1893)
- George Washington Bridge, New York City/New Jersey
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Hohokam canal system, near Phoenix, Arizona
- Holland Tunnel, New York City/New Jersey
- Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Massachusetts
- Hoover Dam
- Lincoln Tunnel, New York City/New Jersey
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Mesa Verde Reservoirs, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Moffat Tunnel, Winter Park, Colorado
- Natchez Trace, through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee
- Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- River des Peres Sewage and Drainage Works (St. Louis, Missouri)
- John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati, Ohio to Covington, Kentucky
- The Stone Arch Bridge, a historic railroad bridge in Minneapolis
- United States Military Academy
- Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Brooklyn/Staten Island, New York City
- Washington Monument
