Glens Falls, NY…
The setting of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last Of The Mohicans.
Richmond, Virginia
The Civil War (surely more battles were fought within a 20 mile radius than any other place in the country)
Capitol of the Confederacy
Hollywood Cemetary
First electric streetcars in the country
Arthur Ashe
John Marshall
The Capitol (designed by Thomas Jefferson)
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Libery or Give Me Death” speech
London, England
Just about everything, but the bit I live in has the All England Tennis Club in it, AKA Wimbledon.
Oh and Wombles (you DO know what a womble is don’t you?)
and the first fan lead football team in the country:
http://www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/
There are a few other things in London too.
Florence, AL (but I’ll cover the whole Shoals area since they all run together: Florence, Sheffield (home), Tuscumbia, and Muscle Shoals.
Tuscumbia:
Birthplace of Helen Keller, Percy Sledge, and Heinie Manush (baseball Hall Of Famer)
Sheffield:
Muscle Shoals Sound - a once popular recording studio
Muscle Shoals:
Fame Studios - another once popular recording studio (both are living on past glory now)
major traffic problems out of scale for a town it’s size
Florence:
Birthplace of Sam Phillips (Sun Records founder), W.C. Handy (“Father Of The Blues”), and T.S. Stribling
University of North Alabama - most famous alum: George “Goober” Lindsey. 4-time NCAA Div. II football champs.
Home of NCAA Div. II football championship game (poorly attended unless UNA is playing in it)
The fifth safest town in America according to some survey.
Crooked cops
No draft beer sales
A TV station that was dumped by the WB as an affiliate
Boondoggle projects to turn the area into a tourists “trap”:
The Mushroom (a tower closed due to poor attendence) :smack:
The submarine harbor (a boat harbor that floods during any serious rainfall) :smack:
Our brand new $3 million golf course (actually cost $8 million, currently closed due to diseased greens) :smack:
Our film commission (the only films made here were by local residents) :smack:
Gooberfest (a film festival no one has ever heard of) :smack:
Phoenix Az.
Heat (but its a dry heat)
Sun (about 330 days a year)
Cactus
Desert
A dry river
D-Backs
One of the few cities with 4 major sports
Did I say heat
widdershins, you left out the one name that always comes to mind when I think about the Shoals area. After all, Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers.
George Bush #1 born here.
jeffwc, let me help you with San Diego…
“America’s Finest City”
First European landing in Alta California (Cabrillo)
First European settlement in Alta California
First California mission
Busiest international border crossing in the world
Meth capital of the US (at least it used to be)
San Diego Wild Animal Park (well, ok, it’s in Escondido)
Sea World
Tallest waterfront hotel on the West Coast (Hyatt)
Gaslamp District
Last CA city taken by US in the Mex-Am War (except LA, which had to be re-taken)
Southwest corner of mainland US
Not a single alley in the downtown area
Rochester, Minnesota
The Mayo Clinic
#1 City in America (I’m not sure how many years in a row, but at least two!) from Money Magazine
IBM
Federal Medical Center (where the blind cleric buddy of Osama’s was housed until they moved him to an undisclosed location)
That’s all I can think of. We don’t have a whole lot of town around here…
Denver, Colorado
The Denver Boot
The unsinkable Molly Brown
Mile High Stadium–that no longer exsists–and of course the Broncos and Avalanche
Newborn hearing screens
The mint
Kip Winger–not that we’re admitting that
I believe Quizno’s started here
Lorenzo the air isn’t as clean in Denver as people might think. We’re kind of like LA in that the mountains trap the pollution and it just sits on the city in the form of the Brown Cloud
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnie the pooh baby 
he was named after us
hm…what else…one of the windest corners in the world? (portage ave and main street)
OMG SLURPEE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!!!
I’ve saw reference to it years ago, before I ever moved to the area.
Ack! :smack: I quess I moved them. Oops.
Dublin, Ireland:
Guinness. 
Cape Town:
Damn fine hunk of sandstone
Sandy Bay - Nudist beach and surfer’s paradise
Robbin Island - ex-prison island and now World Heritage Site
God, I miss home… 
Grim
hi all!
Seattle!
somebody allready mention rain,
the space needle
the farmer’s market
coffee
and of course,
THE WAVE!
At the moment, Barrow-in-Furness is famous for the current outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease. Nice.
JuanitaTech, you forgot John Waters in the Baltimore list…
My hometown is known for its multiple floods over the last century. None since I was born, coincidentally enough. The identity of the (Mid-Atlantic) town is left as an exercise for the reader.
London, UK
Oxford Street
Buckingham Palace
The Houses of Parliament
St Paul’s Cathedral
The British Museum
The V&A
Tower Bridge
Hyde Park
The Millennium Eye
The National Gallery
Black cabs
Double-decker buses
Nelson’s Column
Piccadilly Circus
The tube
Pigeons
Beefeaters
The Tower of London
HMS Belfast
Australians in Earl’s Court
Canary Wharf
Harrods
Regent’s Street
The Savoy
The Post Office Tower
Football clubs
Lack of rubbish bins
And my house.
Tupelo, MS
Birthplace of Elvis 