14 facts across the U.S.
The Royal Gorge Bridge near Canon City, Colorado spans the Arkansas River at 1053 ft. in elevation. It is the highest su…
In 1888, a tremendous train wreck known as "The Blast", occurred in Fountain, Colorado. A freight train carrying eightee…
Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Indiana built one of the first successful American gasoline-powered automobiles in 1894 and tes…
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, connecting Metairie to Mandeville across Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans, held…
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, but he fundamentally changed who could own one. When Ford introduced the moving…
Missouri was the starting point for three of the most important westward migration routes in American history: the Orego…
The Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border was the largest dam in the world when it was completed in 1935, standing 726…
The Erie Canal, completed in 1825 after eight years of construction, connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie and opened…
New York City's subway system, which opened in 1904, is one of the few major transit systems in the world that operates…
On December 17, 1903, on a cold and windy beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made four succe…
Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park follows 33,000 acres of the Cuyahoga River — the same river whose pollution-fueled…
Route 66, the historic highway running from Chicago to Los Angeles, passes through more miles of Oklahoma than any other…
The transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869, when workers for the Union Pacif…
The New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia is the longest steel arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere a…