Ohio: Union Terminal (You didn’t say it had to be iconic of that state :))
South Dakota: Mount Rushmore
New Hampshire’s doesn’t even exist any more: The Old Man of the Mountain
Tennessee: Broadway in downtown Nashville, notable for the tacky neon signs of guitars and cowboy boots and such.
Montana: The Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park.
Vermont: Ben & Jerry’s factory.
North Dakota: Gotta’ be Salem Sue. Nothing says “North Dakota” like a 50-foot fiberglass cow.
Anyone have any ideas for Idaho?
Something involving potatoes. It’s not well known for anything else.
Aside from potatoes, you got a panhandle, preppers, Ruby Ridge, and OreIda (tater-tots).
You forgot Aryan Nations on that list of ID hits!
The golden dome of the state capital building has its charms:
Boise State’s blue football field.
Good one. That and “nearby” Eastern WA U’s red field give me headaches.
For New York I’m going with the Empire State Building over the Statue of Liberty. You can’t see the statue well unless you are in Jersey City or on a boat. The ESB dominates the city even though it’s not the tallest.
Pennsylvania: Philly Art Museum
Massachusetts: Fenway or the Old North Church
Virginia: Marine Corps Memorial
Texas: Alamo without question
New Mexico: Carlsbad Caverns
California: Hollywood sign
Washington: Space Needle
Kentucky: Churchill Downs
Alabama: fire ants
Florida: The Castle
Louisiana: Bourbon St
Texas: The “Welcome to New Mexico” or the “Welcome to Arkansas” sign, depending on which way I’m driving. And driving. And driving.
Kansas: the world’s largest ball of twine
Indiana: Just filling space between Illinois and Ohio.
While SotB has its own tacky charm, most people would, I think, call the Battery, Rainbow Row, or Fort Sumter South Carolina’s iconic locales.
I get why someone would say Mount Hood is iconic to Oregon, but I vividly remember my Portland cousin stopping his car along the side of a road and walking me out to a little stand of woods. The land fell away and the trees thinned out until we emerged into the stunning vista of the Columbia River Gorge. Beautiful. So that’s my iconic image of Oregon.
Utah has to be Dinosaur National Monument.
Best national monument ever.
When I think of Texas, I think of El Capitan – no, not the more famous one in California. But on the plus side the Wikipedia page explicitly states that it is “iconic” of the trans-Pecos region.
These are all places I’ve visited.
California: Yosemite Valley, Golden Gate Bridge, Redwood Forest
Alaska: Denali
Washington: Palouse Falls
Arizona: Grand Canyon
Colorado: Mesa Verde
Montana: Glacier Nat’l Park
Utah: Zion Nat’l Park (or any of the other geologic wonders)
New Mexico: Chaco Canyon
Louisiana: French Quarter
New York: Niagara Falls
Wyoming/Montana: Yellowstone
South Dakota: Mt. Rushmore
Idaho: Hell’s Canyon of the Snake River
WDC: The Lincoln Memorial
West Virginia: Blue Ridge Mountains
Maryland: Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Virginia: Mt. Vernon
Massachusetts: Cape Cod
Oh, that’s a good one. I love the Palouse region in general.
I may have missed it, but has anyone mentioned Mt. St. Helens for Washington yet?
Nuh-uh!
Craters Of The Moon National Monument in Idaho is the Best National Monument Ever!