44 facts across the U.S.
Alabama is home to the Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, the world's largest fishing competition with over 3,000 anglers and 75,00…
The Alaska State Fair held late summer in Palmer, Alaska is home to record breaking giant vegetable exhibits. Given Sout…
The Alaska Language Center at the University of Fairbanks is a research center that aims to document and cultivate the n…
Arizona is the home to 27 different indigenous tribes of people including the Navajo Nation, the country's most populous…
The bolo tie was named the official state neckwear of Arizona in 1971.
Of all the traditional musicians in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, the fiddler holds a distinct place in both the comm…
Cheese dip, sometimes referred to as queso, was created at Mexico Chiquito in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Little Rock h…
California English is a unique speech pattern that has been mostly associated in American popular culture with adolescen…
Loveland, Colorado is the home of the Valentine Re-Mailing Program. For decades people from across the world have sent t…
The "Goal Coast" is a term given to the affluent region of Southwestern Connecticut. Located about 50 miles northeast of…
Weezer frontman, Rivers Cuomo, was raised in an ashram called Yogaville in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Ancient Hawaiians invented modern surfing. They called it he'e nalu, wave-sliding, and it was practiced by everyone from…
Dodge City, Kansas became the most famous cattle town in the American West after the Santa Fe Railroad arrived in 1872.…
The Kentucky Derby, first run in 1875 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, is the oldest continuously held major sporting e…
Jazz music was born in New Orleans, Louisiana at the turn of the 20th century, emerging from a collision of African rhyt…
Stephen King has set most of his novels in Maine, where he has lived for most of his life. His fictional Maine town of C…
Maine's lobster industry accounts for roughly 80% of all lobster caught in the United States and is the backbone of the…
Prince Rogers Nelson, known simply as Prince, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1958 and spent virtually his entire…
The Mississippi Delta region, roughly defined as the flat alluvial plain between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, is th…
Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in a two-room house built by his father Vernon in Tupelo, Mississippi. The hou…
Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, was born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1936 and grew up watching the early days…
Warren Buffett, consistently ranked among the wealthiest people in the world, has lived in the same house in Omaha, Nebr…
Las Vegas did not exist as a significant settlement until the railroad arrived in 1905, and the city as it is known toda…
New Hampshire holds the first presidential primary election in the nation every four years, a tradition that has given t…
New Jersey has more diners than any other state in the United States, earning it the undisputed title of the Diner Capit…
New Mexico's official state question is Red or Green, referring to the choice of red or green chile sauce that accompani…
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City on November 27, 1924. Macy's employees dressed in cos…
The Enchanted Highway in western North Dakota is a 32-mile stretch of road lined with the world's largest metal sculptur…
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio, a choice that reflects Cleveland's historical importance t…
Route 66, the historic highway running from Chicago to Los Angeles, passes through more miles of Oklahoma than any other…
The musical Oklahoma!, which opened on Broadway on March 31, 1943, fundamentally changed the American musical theater. B…
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state in the country, with over 200 documented abandoned settlements scattere…
Pennsylvania is home to the largest Amish community in the world. Lancaster County and surrounding areas have been settl…
The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania has been observing Groundhog Day on February 2nd since 188…
Del's Lemonade, a frozen lemonade made from a recipe brought to Rhode Island by Italian immigrant Angelo DeLucia in 1948…
The Gullah Geechee people, descendants of West African slaves who were brought to the Sea Islands and coastal lowlands o…
Deadwood, South Dakota was the site of the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876, which brought thousands of miners into Sioux t…
Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota began as a struggling pharmacy in 1931 that attracted no customers until owner Ted Huste…
Graceland, Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, is the second most visited house in the United States, behind onl…
Nashville's Music Row, a cluster of recording studios, publishing houses, and record labels concentrated in a small neig…
Vermont is one of only four states that prohibit billboards along highways, along with Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii, having…
The first Thanksgiving in American history was not in Massachusetts but in Virginia, at Berkeley Plantation in Charles C…
Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary in 1874 but spent his formative years in Appleton, Wisconsin, whe…
The Ringling Brothers Circus was founded in Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1884 by five brothers: Al, Otto, Alf T., Charles, and…