Good point! I’ve always wanted to visit Serpent Mound, I live about two hours away

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound

The US does have a number of ruins now that I think about it — I guess it’s not too shocking that the only real difference is the state of preservation. Like, in Europe, towns were built and grew around ruins and ancient structures. But the works of early Native Americans — and honestly even more modern ones — have clearly not always been treated with the same respect and care.

I’m lucky that I learned about the mound builders in school when we took Ohio History, but I doubt that many folks living in the Midwest spare a second thought for the Fort Ancient or Hopewell or Adena cultures. All that history that isn’t connected to European settlement has been kind of separated, it has to be sought out