Reflecting pools are often designed with the outer basin floor at the rim slightly deeper than the central area to suppress wave formation. They can be as small as a bird bath to as large as a major civic element. Their origins are from ancient Persian gardens.

• The Miroir d'eau (Water mirror) on Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, France.
• The Mughal garden reflecting pools at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India
• Chehel Sotoun in Iran
• The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Capitol Reflecting Pool, in Washington, D.C.
• Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Reflection Pool, Hermann Park, Houston, Texas, U.S.
• The modernist Palácio do Planalto and Palácio da Alvorada in Brasília, Brazil
• Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta, Georgia
• The Oklahoma City National Memorial, at the site of the Oklahoma City bombing
• The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, where a former reflecting pool was located in front of the stage, c. 1953 – 1972^[1]
• The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, located at the World Trade Center site in New York City, with two reflecting pools on the location where the Twin Towers stood

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  The reflecting pool of the Taj Mahal
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  The reflecting pool in the Patio de los Arrayanes, at the Moorish Alhambra of Granada, Spain
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  A World Heritage Persian garden site, Chehel Sotoun, in Iran
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  Reflecting Pool at the University of Western Australia
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  Reflecting pool of the Palácio do Planalto (Planalto Palace), in Brazil's modernist capital city Brasília
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  Washington Monument from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.
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  Reflecting pool at Christian Science Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts
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  Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Reflection Pool in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas
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  The North Reflecting Pool at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at dusk, World Trade Center, New York
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  Reflecting pond at the Christchurch Arts Centre in New Zealand