Top 11 must visit ancient American monuments

It is one of the largest and most complex archaeological sites north of Mexico. Built by the Mississippian civilization between 600 and 1400 CE.

Cahokia Mounds Located near Collinsville, Illinoi

This UNESCO World Heritage Site in New Mexico preserves the remains of a vast and impressive network of Chacoan great houses, Chacoan roads, and other archaeological sites dating from 850 to 1250 CE

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Situated in southwestern Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park protects a collection of cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloan people between 600 and 1300 CE.

Mesa Verde National Park

Located in southern Ohio, Serpent Mound is a large earthen effigy in the shape of a serpent. It is one of the most famous prehistoric earthworks in North America and is believed to have been built by the Adena culture between 800 BCE and 1 CE.

Serpent Mound

Poverty Point is one of the oldest and most complex archaeological sites in North America. It was built by a pre-ceramic culture between 3600 and 1400 BCE

Situated in northeastern Louisiana

The ancestral homes of the Puebloan people who lived here from 300 CE to 1300 CE. The canyon walls are filled with cliff dwellings, petroglyphs, and other archaeological sites.

Canyon de Chelly National Monument

The Monument protects a group of 24 earthen mounds built by the Adena and Hopewell cultures between 800 BCE and 400 CE. The mounds are believed to have been used for burial, ceremonial, and social purposes.

Mound City Group National Monument

A series of earthworks, ceremonial centers, and burial mounds built by the Mississippian culture between 800 and 1500 CE. The site includes the Great Temple Mound, one of the largest pyramids north of Mexico.

Ocmulgee National Monument

Located in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah preserves the remains of towers, pueblos, and other structures built by the Puebloan people between 600 and 1300 CE.

Hovenweep National Monument 

Situated near Flagstaff, Arizona, The Monument protects a collection of cliff dwellings built by the Sinagua people between 1100 and 1250 CE.

Walnut Canyon National Monument 

Located near Camp Verde, Arizona, Montezuma Castle National Monument preserves a five-story cliff dwelling built by the Sinagua people between 1100 and 1450 CE.

Montezuma Castle National Monument