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If you were to define the US by a limited number of iconic attractions and sites, what would they be?

Which would be, say, the top 25 sites in the US that everyone has to visit?

I'm thinking stuff like: (in no particular order)

The Grand Canyon, Empire State Building, Mount Rushmore, The Alamo, Yellowstone National Park, Golden Gate Bridge etc...

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The White House
Lincoln Memorial
St Louis Arch
Jefferson Davis Monument (ok not really )

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Dinosaur National Monument

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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell Jefferson Davis Monument (ok not really )

it should be bombed...

and so should that thing in georgia... the georgia "mt rushmore" depicting Lee and Davis...

traitors of the US should not have monuments

in fact, on every 4th of July we should burn confederate flags

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In no particular order (oh and PS, mrmitchell, I don't think so):

Hooters
Empire State Building/statue of liberty/central park (no need to go see central park, that's not speciall, but since you ARE there already, why not, so this should be treated as one entity)
Golden Gate
Alcatraz
NASA museum thingie
any big amusement park
Las Vegas Strip
French Quarters in NO (when they get back up)
Chinese Theater in LA if one MUST go, otherwise skip that town it suuucks
Well OK Lincoln Memorial is OK, it's iconic enough yes.

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lets not forget pearl harbor,

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This list of 25 may not make for great postcards but will give one a good idea of what this country is all about, good and bad.

Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas
International Boulevard, Oakland

Agribusiness in midwest states
Subsistence farming in the Appalachia

Yale University
New Haven High School

San Jose, California
Detroit, Michigan

a Walmart Supercenter
main street of adjacent small town

Interchange between Interstates 5 and 10, Los Angeles
Penn Station, New York

Exurban tract homes in Phoenix
Cabrini Green housing project, Chicago

SoHo, New York City
a NASCAR raceway

Grand Canyon National Park
Open pit copper mines in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, etc.

Miami Beach
Barrow, Alaska

A shopping mall
A DMV office

Crystal Cathedral, Southern California
Storefront church in any major city

and finally

New Orleans

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Smithsonian worth a visit? The Phoenix is there, no?

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Statue of Liberty

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Corn Palace
Mitchell, South Dakota

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Speaking of US icons, I was watching a show on TV last week, and one icon the host picked was the Statue of Liberty. What is intesting is his remark, paraphrased below:

quote: But after 9-11, the stairs was closed indefinitely, with no plans of re-opening it. Sadly, terror has won.

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There's no law against retards hosting TV shows.

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quote: But after 9-11, the stairs was closed indefinitely, with no plans of re-opening it. Sadly, terror has won.

Big hairy deal. You can still visit the observation platform.

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Are elevators more terror-proof than stairs then?

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Beats me.

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Wrigley Field

Ellis Island

The Brooklyn Bridge

And, on a different note: The Mall of America

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quote: Originally posted by DanS There's no law against retards hosting TV shows.

DanS is annoyed by the guy. Thus, he spoke the truth.

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The Sears Tower, tallest building in the world!

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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara The Sears Tower, tallest building in the world!

And one of the ugliest!

Stick with the Empire State building, whose architecture is relatively uninfluenced by hideous European modernism.

Or, better yet, America's most beautiful skyscraper, The Chrysler Building!

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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara The Sears Tower, tallest building in the world!

Wrong.

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quote: Originally posted by Smiley This list of 25 may not make for great postcards but will give one a good idea of what this country is all about, good and bad.

Ok.

quote: Subsistence farming in the Appalachia

Good idea

quote: a Walmart Supercenter main street of adjacent small town

More with the Wal Mart trolls, what did Sam Walton ever do to you?

Besides, the newer Supercenters aren't what you're looking for - an older supercenter or a remaining regular sized Wal Marts are more dull and better for the mood you want to create with your propoganda.

quote: Exurban tract homes in Phoenix Cabrini Green housing project, Chicago

Both of them ugly disasters...I've never seen the exurban tract homes in Phoenix or really any big scale suburban development although I've driven by some suburban development or something in Arkansas...Conway, Bentonville, and Bryant...I think the whole idea creates a terribly ugly place.

quote: SoHo, New York City a NASCAR raceway

Why not a football stadium or baseball field?

quote: Miami Beach Barrow, Alaska

Anyone seen space05us?

quote: Storefront church in any major city

They have two butt ugly churches in Camden, one looks like a warehouse and was actually built that way but the other occupies an emptied Family Dollar or something so it's not near as bad.

quote: New Orleans

At what date? And to symbolize what?

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White House/Washington Monument/Lincoln Memorial
Mount Rushmore
St. Louis Arch
Golden Gate Bridge
Hoover Dam
New York Skyline
Hollywood Sign
Grand Canyon
Las Vegas Skyline

Those are the big ones, we can go into other things like the suburban shopping mall, the suburbs themselves, UGLY AZZ PARKING LOTS, freeways, etc.

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PS THE MIAMI HEAT DANCERS

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Ground zero
The Vietnam wall

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quote: Originally posted by alva The Vietnam wall

Definitely.

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Lincoln Presidential Museum (Springfield, Illinois)

Heritage Trail (scenic trail for bikers/hikers in part of Dubuque County, Iowa)

Yellowstone National Park

Walt Disney World

Gay Pride in Chicago

Dubuque Mississippi River Museum (Dubuque, Iowa)

Ground Zero Memorial

Vietnam Wall

Confederate POW Cemetery (Rock Island, Illinois)

Golden Gate Bridge

any part of Key West Islands

visit any small town in any part of midwest to get a feel of rural America (the good, the bad, the ugly) that is often overlooked with emphasis on only urban culture of America

St. Louis Arch

Hoover Dam

visit at least one battlefield park commemorating an American Revolution battle fought in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia or elsewhere

ditto with a Civil War battlefield park (then after doing both, appreciate what the presenters get right, and laugh at what they get wrong, or leave out altogether)

drive along at LEAST part of historic route 66

Niagra Falls

visit an Amerindian reservation

downtown New York City (American urban culture, with the good, the bad, and the ugly)


I kinda broke the rules of the thread -- some of the places I mentioend are not iconic in that they are famous, but I think by visiting all of these places I mentioned, you get a more mosaic, variegated view of United States.

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noniconic places to visit

13th avenue, Brooklyn, NY on a Sunday. Try the felafel, go to a Jewish book store, buy a fur hat.

All the pizza places within a mile of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The New York Public Library.

The Staten Island Ferry.

Kennebunkport, Maine.

Cape May, New Jersey, on a summer weekend.

The Archaeology Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.

Canaan Valley ski resort, West Virginia

Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

The Uptown section of Chicago.

The Loop "el" in downtown Chicago.

Market Street, San Francisco.

Venice Beach, California.

Saguaro National whatever, Tuscon, AZ

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When you say Tucson, I think first of Tombstone, then the nuclear missile silos. :shrug:

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quote: Originally posted by joncha Corn Palace Mitchell, South Dakota

Proud to say I've actually been there.

Along with Wall Drug (no affiliation with WalMart), in Wall South Dakota.

Can't beat the Corn Palace, though. At least not in the US. The giant easter egg in Vegreville, Alberta gives it a run for it's money.