What is an "other" state's most iconic site?

In My Humble Opinion
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Related to the What is your state’s most iconic site thread, what do you think are the most iconic sites in states you have visited that are not your home state?

Mine:

  • Washington: Space Needle
  • Oregon: Mt Hood
  • New York: Empire State Bldg
  • Nevada: “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign
  • Arizona: Grand Canyon
  • Illinois: Sears (Willis) tower
  • Michigan: Renaissance Center in Detroit
  • Pennsylvania: Liberty Bell
  • Georgia: Stone Mountain
  • Florida: Magic Kingdom Castle (sorry burpo!)
  • Hawaii: Diamond Head
  • Missouri: Gateway Arch
  • Wyoming: Antler Arch in Jackson Hole/Old Faithful in Yellowstone

I am hard-pressed to recall any iconic landmark in Utah or Colorado (the Rocky Mountains is too broad).

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Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park straddles the Utah-Arizona line, but since Arizona has the Grand Canyon for its “most iconic site”, we could award Monument Valley to Utah.

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For something more unambiguously in Utah, there’s Delicate Arch in Arches National Park.

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No worries, snow. I was hard pressed to think of one besides MKC and I’ve been here 22 years and have been thru most of the state. Kennedy Space Flight Center might give Disney a run for the money, icon-wise.

Seeing as how I’m from Maryland, I guess I can’t offer Fort McHenry, huh? :slight_smile:

“The Simpsons are going to Delaware!” “I wanna visit a screen-door factory.”

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You can drive down a highway in E. Texas. Forget the highway name. But the oldest pepper tree is growing there. You can stop and look at it.

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Texas has that joint in San Antonio you’re supposed to remember. Oh, that’s right, Pee-wee was there!

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Delaware: Rows upon rows of post office boxes which represent very successful corporations from around the country.

:wink:

New Mexico: White Sands National Monument, convenient to Alamogordo, where you can hear the Sound Of Freedom (sonic booms from nearby fighter jets based in Holloman) while you eat Anglo Tex-Mex or very watered-down BBQ… yeah, Alamogordo didn’t leave a very good impression on me. Albuquerque has good museums and actual culture, including tons of diverse restaurants, and all the driving you can possibly want in a sprawling city-scape, and Las Cruces is more Mexican New Mexico, with artsy Mesilla nearby and is close to that part of El Paso nobody wants to acknowledge or stay in after dark.

Oregon: [del]The Portland hipster spawning pools.[/del] Astoria, a beautiful historic city.

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Oh! D’uh! How could I forget that!

  • New Mexico: Monument Valley
  • Utah: Delicate Arch (it’s on their licence plate!)
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California: the Hollywood sign

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Michigan - Mackinac Bridge
Colorado - Royal Gorge

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Except it’s (mostly) in Arizona (and partly in Utah). Of course, according to Hollywood, you can find Monument Valley pretty much anyplace west of the Gateway Arch.

It’s really not fair, Arizona–y’all are hogging all the iconic places.

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New Jersey - for better or for worse, the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

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It’s not a state, but the view of of the US Capitol as you exit Union Station in DC is probably the most iconic view I’ve ever seen.

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Another one for California: the Bixby Creek Bridge, which is emblematic of the Big Sur area.

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I am thinking the Golden Gate Bridge.

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For South Carolina, it is probably South of the Border. That is terrible.

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^ There, there…pat, pat…There, there.

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Huntsville, Alabama’s Space and Rocket Center has already been mentioned, so how about Birmingham’s Vulcan statue?

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Missouri: The Arch
Iowa: I got nothing

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TN: Graceland