Famous Landmarks Visible From a Plane

🏜️ Deserts & Canyons

Grand Canyon United States · 723 routes

Uluru (Ayers Rock) Australia · 63 routes

Monument Valley United States · 447 routes

Salar de Uyuni Bolivia · 28 routes

Cappadocia Turkey · 137 routes

Death Valley United States · 542 routes

Sahara Desert Algeria / Libya / Egypt / Niger / Mali · 108 routes

Bonneville Salt Flats United States · 246 routes

Serengeti Plains Tanzania · 63 routes

Red Rock Canyon United States · 459 routes

Great Rift Valley Kenya / Ethiopia / Tanzania · 281 routes

Namib Desert & Sossusvlei Namibia · 27 routes

Aral Sea Kazakhstan / Uzbekistan · 87 routes

Atacama Desert Chile · 57 routes

Arabian Desert (Rub' al Khali) Saudi Arabia / Oman / UAE / Yemen · 363 routes

Gobi Desert Mongolia / China · 192 routes

Wadi Rum Jordan · 50 routes

Thar Desert India / Pakistan · 162 routes

Bryce Canyon United States · 205 routes

Painted Desert & Petrified Forest United States · 464 routes

Meteor Crater United States · 225 routes

Australian Outback Australia · 252 routes

Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) Saudi Arabia · 153 routes

Fergana Valley Uzbekistan · 87 routes

Lut Desert Iran · 69 routes

Lencois Maranhenses Brazil · 2 routes

Danakil Depression Ethiopia · 8 routes

Skeleton Coast Namibia · 4 routes

Fish River Canyon Namibia · 17 routes

Kalahari Desert Botswana · 40 routes

Makgadikgadi Pans Botswana · 10 routes

Etosha Pan Namibia · 13 routes

Tassili n'Ajjer Algeria · 6 routes

Horseshoe Bend United States · 124 routes

Arches National Park United States · 65 routes

Zion National Park United States · 84 routes

Badlands United States · 109 routes

Great Sand Dunes United States · 100 routes

Canyonlands United States · 135 routes

Lake Eyre (Kati Thanda) Australia · 48 routes

Richat Structure (Eye of the Sahara) Mauritania · 5 routes

Pinnacles Desert Australia · 12 routes

Medanos de Coro Venezuela · 24 routes

Siwa Oasis Egypt · 10 routes

White Desert (Farafra) Egypt · 12 routes

🌊 Rivers, Lakes & Falls

Niagara Falls United States / Canada · 1038 routes

Great Barrier Reef Australia · 124 routes

Victoria Falls Zimbabwe / Zambia · 61 routes

Amazon River Brazil · 116 routes

Yellowstone & Grand Prismatic Spring United States · 270 routes

Nile River Egypt / Sudan · 310 routes

Mississippi River Delta United States · 319 routes

Great Salt Lake United States · 489 routes

Lake Baikal Russia · 49 routes

Norwegian Fjords Norway · 648 routes

Lake Titicaca Peru / Bolivia · 28 routes

Dead Sea Israel / Jordan · 200 routes

Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon Iceland · 286 routes

Turnagain Arm United States · 181 routes

Iguazu Falls Argentina / Brazil · 45 routes

Lake Victoria Tanzania / Uganda / Kenya · 52 routes

Lake Tanganyika Tanzania / DR Congo / Burundi / Zambia · 20 routes

Congo River DR Congo / Republic of Congo · 48 routes

Caspian Sea Russia / Kazakhstan / Iran / Azerbaijan / Turkmenistan · 214 routes

Persian Gulf UAE / Saudi Arabia / Iran / Qatar / Bahrain · 864 routes

Danube Delta Romania · 146 routes

Lake Garda Italy · 568 routes

Lake Geneva Switzerland / France · 596 routes

Strait of Gibraltar Spain / Morocco · 183 routes

Great Lakes United States / Canada · 1694 routes

Ha Long Bay Vietnam · 82 routes

Mekong Delta Vietnam · 140 routes

Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta (Sundarbans) Bangladesh / India · 133 routes

Crater Lake United States · 108 routes

Lake Tahoe United States · 264 routes

Okavango Delta Botswana · 31 routes

Strait of Hormuz Oman / Iran · 106 routes

Red Sea Egypt / Saudi Arabia / Sudan / Eritrea · 117 routes

Fiordland New Zealand · 62 routes

Plitvice Lakes Croatia · 373 routes

Lake Como Italy · 771 routes

Angel Falls Venezuela · 18 routes

Lake Zurich Switzerland · 871 routes

Yangtze River China · 765 routes

Lake Toba Indonesia · 45 routes

Inle Lake Myanmar · 7 routes

Tonle Sap Cambodia · 92 routes

Irrawaddy River Myanmar · 92 routes

Kerala Backwaters India · 86 routes

Li River China · 38 routes

Yellow River (Huang He) China · 410 routes

Pantanal Brazil · 28 routes

Orinoco Delta Venezuela · 32 routes

Meeting of the Waters Brazil · 14 routes

Lake Malawi Malawi · 8 routes

Lake Turkana Kenya · 23 routes

Niger Delta Nigeria · 7 routes

Lake Natron Tanzania · 32 routes

Lake Volta Ghana · 16 routes

Bay of Kotor Montenegro · 198 routes

Rhine Gorge Germany · 534 routes

Finnish Lakeland Finland · 161 routes

Bay of Naples Italy · 251 routes

Everglades United States · 302 routes

Chesapeake Bay United States · 456 routes

Belize Blue Hole Belize · 9 routes

Bay of Fundy Canada · 228 routes

Inside Passage United States · 82 routes

Lake Taupo New Zealand · 22 routes

Kakadu Australia · 16 routes

Ningaloo Reef Australia · 13 routes

Lake Chad Chad · 11 routes

Volga River Russia · 401 routes

Danube River Multiple · 746 routes

Zambezi River Zambia · 22 routes

Indus River Pakistan · 110 routes

Emperor Seamounts International Waters · 6 routes

Niger River Mali · 7 routes

Lake Assal Djibouti · 0 routes

Rio Grande United States · 60 routes

Salton Sea United States · 151 routes

Mississippi River United States · 3260 routes

Lake Argentino Argentina · 18 routes

Amazon River Mouth Brazil · 20 routes

Cajas National Park Ecuador · 8 routes

Shark Bay Australia · 6 routes

Milford Sound New Zealand · 6 routes

Heart Reef Australia · 4 routes

Lake Kivu Rwanda · 0 routes

Rio Negro Brazil · 18 routes

Lake Balkhash Kazakhstan · 43 routes

Moraine Lake Canada · 37 routes

Parana River Argentina · 26 routes

🧊 Glaciers & Ice

Patagonia & Torres del Paine Chile / Argentina · 29 routes

Greenland Ice Sheet Greenland (Denmark) · 243 routes

St. Elias Icefields & Coast Mountains United States / Canada · 116 routes

Vatnajökull Glacier Iceland · 211 routes

Perito Moreno Glacier Argentina · 21 routes

Aletsch Glacier Switzerland · 665 routes

Svalbard Norway · 30 routes

Columbia Icefield Canada · 137 routes

Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers New Zealand · 35 routes

Glacier Bay United States · 75 routes

Franz Josef Land Russia · 10 routes

Baffin Island Canada · 181 routes

San Rafael Glacier Chile · 4 routes

🏔️ Mountains & Volcanoes

Mount Everest Nepal / China · 132 routes

Mount Fuji Japan · 331 routes

Mount Kilimanjaro Tanzania · 95 routes

The Alps Switzerland / France / Italy / Austria · 3000 routes

Matterhorn Switzerland / Italy · 809 routes

Denali (Mount McKinley) United States · 70 routes

Mount Rainier United States · 714 routes

Rocky Mountains United States / Canada · 3567 routes

The Dolomites Italy · 1142 routes

Himalayas Nepal / China / India / Bhutan · 493 routes

Scottish Highlands United Kingdom · 624 routes

Andes Mountains Chile / Argentina / Peru / Bolivia · 731 routes

Haleakalā United States · 86 routes

Southern Alps & Milford Sound New Zealand · 121 routes

Table Mountain South Africa · 85 routes

Yosemite Valley United States · 419 routes

Banff & the Canadian Rockies Canada · 345 routes

Mount Etna Italy · 182 routes

Mount Vesuvius Italy · 332 routes

Mont Blanc France / Italy · 701 routes

Pyrenees France / Spain · 864 routes

Caucasus Mountains Russia / Georgia · 222 routes

Atlas Mountains Morocco / Algeria · 466 routes

Mount Kenya Kenya · 66 routes

Drakensberg Mountains South Africa / Lesotho · 108 routes

Mount Ararat Turkey · 117 routes

Tian Shan Mountains Kyrgyzstan / China / Kazakhstan · 362 routes

Karakoram & K2 Pakistan / China · 156 routes

Cotopaxi Ecuador · 102 routes

Popocatépetl Mexico · 185 routes

Mount Teide Spain (Canary Islands) · 62 routes

The Pitons Saint Lucia · 164 routes

Aoraki / Mount Cook New Zealand · 41 routes

Mount Olympus Greece · 219 routes

Mount St. Helens United States · 250 routes

Appalachian Mountains United States · 4961 routes

Mount Shasta United States · 119 routes

Jungfrau & Bernese Alps Switzerland · 662 routes

Mount Pinatubo Philippines · 124 routes

Mount Kinabalu Malaysia · 34 routes

Tongariro & Mount Ngauruhoe New Zealand · 34 routes

Aconcagua Argentina · 96 routes

Mount Elbrus Russia · 94 routes

Kilauea United States · 29 routes

Zhangjiajie Pillars China · 28 routes

Guilin Karst Landscape China · 131 routes

Mount Bromo Indonesia · 38 routes

Chocolate Hills Philippines · 20 routes

Taroko Gorge Taiwan · 81 routes

Pamir Mountains Tajikistan · 123 routes

K2 Pakistan · 43 routes

Hunza Valley Pakistan · 21 routes

Western Ghats India · 517 routes

Musandam Peninsula Oman · 69 routes

Mount Aso Japan · 58 routes

Phong Nha Karst Vietnam · 18 routes

Mount Damavand Iran · 44 routes

Annapurna Massif Nepal · 73 routes

Huangshan (Yellow Mountains) China · 55 routes

Mount Rinjani Indonesia · 14 routes

Mount Roraima Venezuela · 0 routes

Torres del Paine Chile · 13 routes

Colca Canyon Peru · 14 routes

Chimborazo Ecuador · 26 routes

Colombian Coffee Triangle Colombia · 49 routes

Tepuis of Canaima Venezuela · 18 routes

Ngorongoro Crater Tanzania · 26 routes

Simien Mountains Ethiopia · 14 routes

Virunga Mountains Rwanda · 2 routes

Rwenzori Mountains Uganda · 8 routes

Blyde River Canyon South Africa · 12 routes

Mount Cameroon Cameroon · 14 routes

Cliffs of Moher Ireland · 106 routes

Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) Norway · 40 routes

Giant's Causeway United Kingdom · 58 routes

Na Pali Coast United States · 16 routes

Glacier National Park United States · 100 routes

Grand Teton United States · 120 routes

Copper Canyon Mexico · 74 routes

Acadia National Park United States · 102 routes

Devils Tower United States · 35 routes

Blue Mountains Australia · 164 routes

Bungle Bungles Australia · 16 routes

Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand · 44 routes

Mount Meru Tanzania · 24 routes

Taal Volcano Philippines · 69 routes

Kamchatka Peninsula Russia · 184 routes

Pitons of Saint Lucia Saint Lucia · 32 routes

Erta Ale Ethiopia · 3 routes

White Island (Whakaari) New Zealand · 10 routes

Chapada Diamantina Brazil · 14 routes

Huascaran Peru · 44 routes

Avenue of Volcanoes Ecuador · 85 routes

Tayrona National Park Colombia · 23 routes

Kimberley Coast Australia · 32 routes

North Cape Norway · 4 routes

Aurora Coast Philippines · 40 routes

Ladakh India · 78 routes

Jungfrau Region Switzerland · 199 routes

Antrim Coast United Kingdom · 86 routes

Drakensberg Amphitheatre South Africa · 22 routes

El Yunque Rainforest United States · 73 routes

🏝️ Islands & Coasts

Lofoten Islands Norway · 79 routes

Hawaii (Big Island) United States · 78 routes

Maldives Atolls Maldives · 66 routes

Bora Bora French Polynesia · 30 routes

Galápagos Islands Ecuador · 12 routes

Azores Portugal · 123 routes

Faroe Islands Denmark (Faroe Islands) · 190 routes

Amalfi Coast Italy · 393 routes

Santorini & the Aegean Islands Greece · 396 routes

Florida Keys & Biscayne Bay United States · 631 routes

Cape of Good Hope South Africa · 85 routes

White Cliffs of Dover United Kingdom · 1089 routes

Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Chile · 2 routes

Zanzibar Tanzania · 99 routes

Seychelles Seychelles · 23 routes

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka · 141 routes

Bali Indonesia · 150 routes

Canary Islands Spain · 160 routes

Komodo Islands Indonesia · 29 routes

Twelve Apostles Australia · 63 routes

Whitsunday Islands Australia · 51 routes

Corsica France · 354 routes

Sardinia Italy · 243 routes

Crete Greece · 231 routes

El Nido & Palawan Philippines · 65 routes

Fiji Islands Fiji · 78 routes

Channel Islands United Kingdom / France · 533 routes

Krakatoa Indonesia · 8 routes

Raja Ampat Indonesia · 18 routes

Jeju Island South Korea · 56 routes

Phi Phi Islands Thailand · 74 routes

Socotra Yemen · 6 routes

Langkawi Malaysia · 96 routes

Lombok Indonesia · 22 routes

Phuket Thailand · 98 routes

Tierra del Fuego Argentina · 18 routes

Fernando de Noronha Brazil · 7 routes

Cape Horn Chile · 0 routes

Falkland Islands United Kingdom · 4 routes

Mauritius Mauritius · 35 routes

Reunion France · 2 routes

Cape Verde Cape Verde · 12 routes

Madeira Portugal · 32 routes

Malta Malta · 82 routes

Stockholm Archipelago Sweden · 172 routes

Capri Italy · 39 routes

Mallorca Spain · 99 routes

Dalmatian Coast Croatia · 513 routes

Outer Banks United States · 99 routes

Bermuda United Kingdom · 8 routes

Puerto Rico United States · 22 routes

Lord Howe Island Australia · 2 routes

Moorea France · 10 routes

Tahiti France · 20 routes

New Caledonia France · 20 routes

Palau Palau · 10 routes

Vanuatu Vanuatu · 28 routes

Tasmania Australia · 57 routes

Samoa Samoa · 8 routes

Tonga Tonga · 18 routes

Bazaruto Archipelago Mozambique · 0 routes

Wrangel Island Russia · 10 routes

Aleutian Islands United States · 123 routes

Rottnest Island Australia · 28 routes

K'gari (Fraser Island) Australia · 2 routes

Andaman Islands India · 36 routes

Lanzarote Spain · 32 routes

Deception Island Antarctica · 0 routes

🏛️ Monuments & Ruins

Pyramids of Giza Egypt · 162 routes

Great Wall of China China · 238 routes

Machu Picchu Peru · 42 routes

Diamond Head & Waikiki United States · 175 routes

Taj Mahal India · 176 routes

Angkor Wat Cambodia · 115 routes

Petra Jordan · 47 routes

Colosseum & Ancient Rome Italy · 571 routes

Acropolis of Athens Greece · 456 routes

Chichén Itzá Mexico · 95 routes

Panama Canal Panama · 175 routes

Suez Canal Egypt · 110 routes

Bagan Temples Myanmar · 55 routes

Borobudur Indonesia · 97 routes

Palm Jumeirah United Arab Emirates · 432 routes

Three Gorges Dam China · 48 routes

Hoover Dam & Lake Mead United States · 518 routes

Mesa Verde United States · 277 routes

Banaue Rice Terraces Philippines · 26 routes

Potala Palace China · 12 routes

Nazca Lines Peru · 28 routes

Itaipu Dam Brazil · 20 routes

Meteora Greece · 123 routes

Alhambra Spain · 41 routes

Neuschwanstein Castle Germany · 172 routes

Teotihuacan Mexico · 72 routes

Mont Saint-Michel France · 82 routes

🏙️ Famous Skylines

Manhattan Skyline United States · 1780 routes

Las Vegas Strip United States · 471 routes

Dubai Skyline United Arab Emirates · 490 routes

Hong Kong Harbour China (Hong Kong) · 392 routes

Sydney Harbour Australia · 357 routes

San Francisco Bay & Golden Gate United States · 786 routes

Rio de Janeiro & Sugarloaf Mountain Brazil · 143 routes

Bosphorus & Istanbul Skyline Turkey · 606 routes

Singapore Singapore · 552 routes

Tokyo Bay Japan · 509 routes

Shanghai & the Yangtze Delta China · 392 routes

Bangkok & the Chao Phraya Thailand · 288 routes

Paris & the Seine France · 1074 routes

London & the Thames United Kingdom · 1880 routes

Cairo & the Nile Delta Egypt · 173 routes

Chicago Lakefront United States · 1019 routes

Los Angeles Basin United States · 981 routes

Havana Cuba · 101 routes

Venice & the Lagoon Italy · 597 routes

Vancouver & the Inside Passage Canada · 430 routes

Mexico City Mexico · 189 routes

Buenos Aires & Río de la Plata Argentina · 282 routes

Santiago & the Andes Wall Chile · 146 routes

Luang Prabang Laos · 32 routes

Varanasi India · 28 routes

Samarkand Uzbekistan · 12 routes

La Paz Bolivia · 20 routes

Sao Paulo Brazil · 226 routes

Bogota Colombia · 137 routes

Marrakech Morocco · 76 routes

Dubrovnik Croatia · 188 routes

Cinque Terre Italy · 100 routes

Barcelona Spain · 348 routes

Budapest Hungary · 277 routes

Amsterdam Netherlands · 613 routes

Lisbon Portugal · 249 routes

Valparaiso Chile · 1 route

Ushuaia Argentina · 12 routes

Manaus Brazil · 14 routes

Cartagena Colombia · 48 routes

Prague Czech Republic · 224 routes

nature

Avenue of the Baobabs Madagascar · 4 routes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you see famous landmarks from a commercial flight?

Yes — many commercial flight routes pass within visible range of famous landmarks. We track 385 landmarks across 8 categories, from natural wonders like the Grand Canyon to historic sites like the Great Wall of China.

How does WhichSideOfThePlane know which landmarks are visible?

We calculate the great-circle distance between every cached flight route and each landmark. If a route passes within a landmark's visibility radius, we flag which side of the plane offers the view and how close the flight path comes.

Which side of the plane should I sit on to see a landmark?

It depends on your specific route and the landmark's position relative to the flight path. Select any landmark below to see exactly which routes pass near it and which seat side gives you the best view.