36 facts across the U.S.
The worlds first monument to an agricultural pest resides in the town of Enterprise, Alabama. In 1919, the citizens of E…
You can sift for your own diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Pike County, Arkansas. In 1906, farmer John Huddl…
The Hollywood Bowl located in Hollywood, California is the largest natural outdoor amphitheater in the United States.
The Royal Gorge Bridge near Canon City, Colorado spans the Arkansas River at 1053 ft. in elevation. It is the highest su…
Mark Twain resided in his Hartford, Connecticut home from 1871 until 1891, during which time he published The Adventures…
In the 1960s, refugees from Cuba fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime arrived in Miami at the Freedom Tower. This for…
Dry Tortugas National Park sits 70 miles west of Key West and can only be reached by boat or seaplane. Its centerpiece,…
The popular theme park, Six Flags Over Georgia, was actually named for six flags that flew over Georgia: England, Spain,…
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the largest sports venue in the world by seating capacity, with 257,325 permanent sea…
The Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa, where Kevin Costner's 1989 film was shot, has become one of the most…
Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeastern Iowa preserves more than 200 prehistoric earthen mounds built by Native…
The geographic center of the contiguous 48 states is marked by a small monument in a field near Lebanon, Kansas, a town…
Fort Knox in Kentucky has housed the bulk of the United States gold reserves since 1937, currently holding about 147 mil…
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, connecting Metairie to Mandeville across Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans, held…
West Quoddy Head in Lubec, Maine is the easternmost point in the United States, the first place in the country to see th…
Maine's Acadia National Park, established in 1919, was the first national park east of the Mississippi River. Its Cadill…
Maryland is home to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the most visited aquarium in the United States, and also to the…
Kansas City, Missouri is home to more fountains than any city in the world except Rome. The city has over 200 fountains,…
Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis is the smallest national park in the United States at just 192 acres. The stainl…
Chimney Rock in western Nebraska is a narrow spire of volcanic ash and clay rising 325 feet from a conical base on the s…
The Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border was the largest dam in the world when it was completed in 1935, standing 726…
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from France, conceived by French political thinker Edouard de Labo…
The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina is the largest privately owned home in the United States, with 178,926…
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…
Philadelphia served as the de facto capital of the United States for much of the nation's early history, and both the De…
The Breakers, the summer cottage of Cornelius Vanderbilt II in Newport, Rhode Island, was completed in 1895 and remains…
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina at 4:30 AM on April 12,…
The carving of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota began in 1927 and took 14 years and about 400 workers t…
The Crazy Horse Memorial being carved into Thunderhead Mountain in the Black Hills near Custer, South Dakota will be the…
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…
The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia is the largest office building in the world, with 17.5 miles of corridors, 6.5 milli…
The New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia is the longest steel arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere a…
From 1764 to 1767, two brothers named John and Samuel Pringle lived inside the hollow trunk of a massive sycamore tree n…
Devils Tower in the Black Hills of northeastern Wyoming was the first U.S. National Monument, designated by President Th…