What is your state's most iconic sight?

[Chefguy]

@Aspenglow

Oh, let’s not fight and agree it’s probably Crater Lake.

Probably, although I’d throw in Silver Falls and Smith Rock for good measure.

[TriPolar]

@Marvin_the_Martian

In Arizona we get a pretty good chuckle over “the Grand Canyon of X” where X is anything but the Colorado River.

The Grand Canyon of Kansas is a drainage ditch.

[Dag_Otto]

@asterion

I dunno. Maybe one of the pueblos like Taos or Acoma? Shiprock? Carlsbad? Aggressively putting “USA” on the license plates?

Probably Carlsbad, especially the Big Room.

White Sands.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@Telemark

No one in NH , VT, or ME ever calls those the Grand Canyon of anything.

You should hear what else they’re saying about your state(s).

[dorvann]

@Dag_Otto

White Sands.

Maybe its the crash site or the grey aliens with really big eyes. (I’m only half joking–the first thing I think about when someone mentions New Mexico is the Roswell UFO “crash”; the second is Walter White and Breaking Bad.)

[Baker]

@Shoeless

Can’t really think of anything iconic for Kansas. Big flat corn and wheat fields? The “Welcome to Colorado” sign at the end?

Defining iconic is hard, but I offer these sights.

https://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/

Of the eight wonders I have seen/been to six. Of the others labled as finalists I have seen about half of them.

St.Fidelis in Victoria is not to be missed, it is easy to visit being only a couple miles off of I-70. It is so tall you can actually spot it from the interstate.

[Derleth]

@dorvann

Maybe its the crash site or the grey aliens with really big eyes. (I’m only half joking–the first thing I think about when someone mentions New Mexico is the Roswell UFO “crash”; the second is Walter White and Breaking Bad.)

I don’t know that the crash site is preserved, but Roswell itself isn’t much: There’s a kitschy tourist-trap of a “museum” and that’s about it. It isn’t a big enough town to have much else for outsiders.

[HelenGawn]

@AncientHumanoid

For my home state of Texas, the Alamo was already mentioned. The Astrodome might be it for some people. The huge Saturn V on its side at JSC - NASA could work. The Clute Mosquito Festival, the Giant Cross on I-40 near Amarillo, Caddilac Ranch on the other side of Amarillo, The San Jacinto Monument, Jerry Jones’ ego, Big Tex at the State Fair grounds in Dallas, the Ship Channel bridge on Loop 610 in Houston, the Moody or the Bishop mansions in Galveston, that sign somewhere on a Hill Country hwy that reads “This is God’s country, please don’t drive through it like hell”, the Sabine Pass, the long lonely never ending view of I-10 in West Texas, the Piney Woods in East Texas, the Tyler Rose Garden, fire ants, refineries in Bay Town, Pasadena, and Texas City, Houston Galleria, humidity, South Padre Island, a border crossing near McAllen, etc… It’s a big state, lots of different styles, climates, and landscapes. But yeah, the Alamo.

Hondo, about forty miles west of San Antonio. You’ll notice that the “please” is missing in the historic picture. It was added in the eighties for politeness’s sake.

[OldGuy]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

OK, THIS has gone too far!

You do realize that that one is in fact bigger than the Grand Canyon.

[Ulf_the_Unwashed]

Without having read the rest of the thread: either Niagara Falls or the Statue of Liberty.

[AncientHumanoid]

@HelenGawn

Hondo, about forty miles west of San Antonio. You’ll notice that the “please” is missing in the historic picture. It was added in the eighties for politeness’s sake.

[Jackmannii]

I was wrong and I admit it.

This is Ohio’s most iconic sight.

I’ll have to be on the lookout - they should be here any day now.