Many monuments and buildings in the US use Roman imagery and architecture to symbolize the might and power of the United States. The Capitol with its dome, columns, and capping statue is very Romanesque. The Lincoln and Jefferson memorials are practically Roman temples with statues of she respective gods inside.
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The Washington Monument is taken from Egyptian architecture: an obelisk. You see these everywhere Rome reached. The Nazis also used a lot of archetypal symbology from the Roman Empire. Many modern powers look back to the height of the Roman Empire as the greatest time in the history of the West until the Renaissance.
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