33 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…
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska is the largest national park in the United States at 13.2 millio…
The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona hosts the largest, most diverse gathering of astronomical instruments in t…
The Hollywood Bowl located in Hollywood, California is the largest natural outdoor amphitheater in the United States.
Yosemite Falls in California's Yosemite National Park plunges 2,425 feet in three cascades, making it the tallest waterf…
The Royal Gorge Bridge near Canon City, Colorado spans the Arkansas River at 1053 ft. in elevation. It is the highest su…
Everglades National Park is the only place on Earth where American alligators and American crocodiles live side by side.…
The Kazumura Cave system on the Big Island of Hawaii is the longest and deepest lava tube in the world at 40.7 miles lon…
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, contains Kīlauea and Mauna Loa — two of the world's most active vol…
Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border is the deepest river gorge in North America, plunging 7,913 feet from the peaks…
The first Ferris wheel in history was built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, designed by bridge eng…
Cahokia, located just across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis in southwestern Illinois, was the largest…
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the largest sports venue in the world by seating capacity, with 257,325 permanent sea…
Mammoth Cave in central Kentucky is the longest known cave system in the world, with over 400 miles of explored passages…
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, connecting Metairie to Mandeville across Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans, held…
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on the northwestern shore of Michigan's Lower Peninsula features sand dunes r…
Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis is the smallest national park in the United States at just 192 acres. The stainl…
Yogo Gulch in the Little Belt Mountains of central Montana is one of only two places on earth that produce a naturally o…
The Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border was the largest dam in the world when it was completed in 1935, standing 726…
Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada shelters Great Basin bristlecone pines — among the longest-lived organisms o…
On April 12, 1934, weather observers at the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire recorded a wind gust of 231 mile…
New York City's subway system, which opened in 1904, is one of the few major transit systems in the world that operates…
Niagara Falls on the New York-Canada border is not the tallest waterfall in the world, or even the tallest in North Amer…
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…
Congaree National Park in South Carolina protects the largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest re…
The Crazy Horse Memorial being carved into Thunderhead Mountain in the Black Hills near Custer, South Dakota will be the…
Tennessee has more caves than any other state in the United States, with over 10,000 documented cave systems ranging fro…
The King Ranch in south Texas, founded in 1853 by steamboat captain Richard King, covers 825,000 acres, making it larger…
The Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah, a remnant of a prehistoric lake called Lake Bonneville that once covered…
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…