100 Reasons to Visit USA

The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the extreme Northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Here are 100 reasons to visit USA.

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    Grand Canyon

    Arizona’s Grand Canyon is a natural formation distinguished by its layered bands of red rock and its vast scale, averaging 10 miles across and a mile deep along its 277-mile length. Much of the area is a national park.

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    Route 66

    Source: superuser.com

    U.S. Route 66, also known as the Will Rogers Highway and colloquially known as the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System. America is big, very big. Pick a direction, any direction and just take off and see what happens. Small towns, beautiful scenery and a multitude of delicious things to eat will all be your reward.

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    The People

    Source: www.stripes.com

    Americans are Extremely Friendly and Interested in Travelers. They thank people for service well done.

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    Walt Disney World

    Source: huffpost.com

    The Walt Disney World Resort, informally known as Walt Disney World or simply Disney World, is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake, Florida, near Kissimmee and Orlando and is the flagship of Disney's worldwide corporate empire.

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    Mendenhall Valley

    Mendenhall Valley is an area of Juneau in the U.S. state of Alaska. The valley, named for physicist and meteorologist Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, was formed by Mendenhall Glacier over the course of roughly three thousand years.

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    Yellowstone National Park

    Source: feel-planet.com

    Yellowstone National Park is a nearly 3,500-sq.-mile wilderness recreation area atop a volcanic hot spot. Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho too. Yellowstone features dramatic canyons, alpine rivers, lush forests, hot springs and gushing geysers, including its most famous, Old Faithful.

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    The History

    Despite being the new kid on the block, the United States is full of historical attractions in every corner of our country. Who can forget Lady Liberty, who welcomed so many hopeful immigrants to her shores? Or the Alamo, where a turning point was made in the Texas Revolution?

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    Yosemite National Park

    Yosemite National Park is set within California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s famed for its giant, ancient sequoias, and for Tunnel View, the iconic vista of towering Bridalveil Fall and the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome.

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    The Food

    America is a melting pot, and with that comes a kaleidoscope of options in the culinary department. Chinese food in San Francisco, Mexican in Arizona, Indian in New York City, and of course Southern home cooking in the South.

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    Statue of Liberty

    The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City.

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    Canyon de Chelly, Arizona

    Canyon de Chelly National Monument was established on April 1, 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service. It is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation.

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    Ride the rails across the USA

    Whether you travel straight through or stop in cities en route, the 3,000-mile coast-to-coast trip on Amtrak is a bargain. Fares start at $223 for the three-night northern route from New York to Los Angeles via Chicago.

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    Galena

    Source: volumeone.org

    Galena is the largest city in and the county seat of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, with a population of 3,429 at the 2010 census. A 581-acre section of the city is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Galena Historic District.

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    Golden Gate Bridge

    Source: www.unc.edu

    The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the 1 mile wide, 3 mile long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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    Hamilton Pool

    Hamilton Pool Preserve is a natural pool that was created when the dome of an underground river collapsed due to massive erosion thousands of years ago. The pool is located about 23 miles west of Austin, Texas off Highway 71

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    Arecibo, Puerto Rico

    Source: jorgeq.com

    Arecibo is a municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida. It is about 50 miles west of San Juan, the capital city.

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    Manzano Mountains

    The Manzano Mountains are a small mountain range in the central part of the US State of New Mexico. They are oriented north-south and are about 40 miles long.

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    Central Park

    Central Park is an urban park in middle-upper Manhattan, New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States as well as one of the most filmed locations in the world. It opened in 1857 on 778 acres of city-owned land.

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    Niagara Falls

    Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York.

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    Cape Elizabeth

    Cape Elizabeth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The town is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.

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    Gillette Castle State Park

    Gillette Castle State Park straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme, Connecticut in the United States, sitting high above the Connecticut River.

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    Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. The sprawling landscape encompases lush forests and an abundance of wildflowers that bloom year-round.

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    Lake Winnipesaukee

    Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, located in the Lakes Region.

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    Times Square

    Source: thejetlife.com

    Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

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    Asylum Township

    Asylum Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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    Vacherie

    Vacherie is a small unincorporated community in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

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    White House

    The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800.

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    Natural Rock Bridge

    Source: blog.trip30.com

    Natural Bridge is a town at the southwest edge of Winston County, Alabama, located near the intersection of U.S. Highway 278 and Alabama Highway 13.

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    Alcatraz Island

    Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco, California.

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    Claiborne County

    Claiborne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,604. Its county seat is Port Gibson. The county is named after William Claiborne, the second governor of the Mississippi Territory.

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    Savannah

    Savannah, a coastal Georgia city, is separated from South Carolina by the Savannah River. It’s known for its manicured parks, horse-drawn carriages and ornate antebellum architecture.

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    Empire State Building

    Source: wikimedia.org

    The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets.

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    Discovery Cove

    Discovery Cove is a theme park owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, located on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida. It is a sister park of SeaWorld Orlando and Aquatica Orlando.

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    Landsford Canal State Park, South Carolina

    Landsford Canal State Park is a South Carolina state park located in Chester County, two miles from US 21.

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    Visit Ellis Island, New York

    The USA is a land of immigrants and between 1892 and 1954, 12 million newcomers were processed on Ellis Island. Hear their moving stories in the museum; search the database for long-lost relatives.

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    Skagit Valley, Washington

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    Bryce Canyon National Park

    Source: wikimedia.org

    Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, is known for its crimson-colored hoodoos, or spire-shaped rock formations.

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    Lincoln Memorial

    Source: washington.org

    The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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    Pigeon River Waterfall, Minnesota

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    Rock ‘n’ Roll in Memphis, Tennessee

    Since Elvis died in 1977, Graceland has become a shrine for fans. Small by today’s superstar standards, the home of The King has the bling of the 1950s – shagged carpets and a pool room.

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    Universal Studios Hollywood

    Universal Studios Hollywood is a film studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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    The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

    Source: blogrope.com

    The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a themed area spanning two theme parks – Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Florida – at the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida.

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    Toe tap at the SXSW in Austin

    Source: sheknows.com

    Austin is a music-lovers town. The home of the Broken Spoke and the Cactus Café is a great music city in its own right, but Austin also hosts the annual, week-long SXSW, South by Southwest Music Festival. Discover stars of the future: choose from 2,200 performances on 100 stages all over downtown

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    United States Capitol

    Source: wikimedia.org

    The United States Capitol, often called Capitol Hill, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It sits atop Capitol Hill, at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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    View a live volcano on the Big Island, Hawai’i

    Source: wikimedia.org

    Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. From deep within the crater, fumes spout from the lava lake: in daytime, they look like smoke; at night, they glow eerily.

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    Rockefeller Center

    Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st streets in New York City.

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    Northern Lights, Alaska

    Because Fairbanks is closer to the highly active Aurora Borealis area over the arctic and the winter nights are longer than they are to the south - the Aurora Borealis light shows are generally much brighter and more reliable over the Fairbanks and the Northern Alaska areas than anywhere else.

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    Maymont Gardens

    Source: wikimedia.org

    A 19th-century estate hosting events & tours of its Gilded Age mansion, gardens & wildlife center

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    Port Austin

    Port Austin is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan

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    National Mall

    The National Mall is a national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

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    Haleakalā National Park

    Haleakalā National Park is a national park located on the island of Maui in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. The park covers an area of 33,265 acres, of which 19,270 acres is a wilderness area.

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    Relax on one of America’s best beaches, Florida

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    National Museum of Natural History

    Source: newsdesk.si.edu

    The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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    Nā Pali Coast State Park , Hawaii

    he Nā Pali Coast State Park is a 6,175 acres Hawaiian state park located in the center of the rugged 16 miles along the northwest side of Kauaʻi, the oldest inhabited Hawaiian island.

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    Epcot

    Epcot is the second of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near the city of Orlando. It opened as EPCOT Center on October 1, 1982, and spans 300 acres, more than twice the size of the Magic Kingdom park.

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    Holland Island, Maryland

    Holland Island is a marshy, rapidly eroding island in the Chesapeake Bay, in Dorchester County, Maryland, west of Salisbury, USA. The island was once inhabited by watermen and farmers, but has since been abandoned.

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    Cape Perpetua

    Cape Perpetua is a large forested headland projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the central Oregon Coast in Lincoln County, Oregon.

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    SeaWorld Orlando

    SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park, and marine-life based zoological park, located on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida. It is owned and operated by SeaWorld Entertainment.

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    Newport

    Newport is a city in the New England state of Rhode Island, set on Aquidneck Island. Its yacht-filled harbor hosted the America’s Cup, a renowned annual regatta, for many years.

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    Woodland Beach, Delaware

    Woodland Beach is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware. Woodland Beach is along the Delaware Bay east of Smyrna at the eastern terminus of Delaware Route 6.

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    Cedar Point

    Cedar Point is a 365-acre amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio. Opened in 1870, it is the second-oldest operating amusement park in the United States behind Lake Compounce.

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    St. Louis

    St. Louis is a city and port in the U.S. state of Missouri. The city developed along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which forms Missouri's border with Illinois.

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    Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States and among the most visited art museums in the world.

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    Palouse Falls, Washington

    The Palouse Falls lies on the Palouse River, about 4 mi upstream of the confluence with the Snake River in southeast Washington. The falls are 198 ft in height.

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    National Air and Space Museum

    The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world in 161,145 square feet of exhibition floor space.

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    Glacier Point, California

    Glacier Point is a viewpoint above Yosemite Valley, in California. It is located on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of 7,214 feet, 3,200 feet above Curry Village.

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    Badlands National Park

    Source: boomsbeat.com

    Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States.

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    San Diego Zoo

    Source: 10bestmedia.com

    The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California housing over 3,700 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies.

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    Sawtooth National Recreation Area

    Sawtooth National Forest is a federally protected area that covers 2,110,408 acres in the U.S. states of Idaho and Utah.

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    Space Needle

    Source: www.kirotv.com

    The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle.

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    San Juan Mountains, Colorado

    The San Juan Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado, and is the largest mountain range in Colorado by area.

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    Willis Tower

    The Willis Tower, built as and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower, is a 108-story, 1,451-foot skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.

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    Grand Prismatic Spring, Wyoming

    The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin.

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    Glacier National Park, Montana

    Glacier National Park is a national park located in the U.S. state of Montana, on the Canada–United States border with the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.

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    Hoover Dam

    Source: www.history.com

    Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada.

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    Theodore Roosevelt National Park

    Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a United States National Park comprising three geographically separated areas of badlands in western North Dakota.

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    Gove County

    Source: panoramio.com

    Gove County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 2,695. Its county seat is Gove City, and its most populous city is Quinter.

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    Biltmore Estate

    Source: www.jshonk.com

    Biltmore Estate is a large private estate and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House, the main house on the estate, is a Châteauesque-styled mansion built by George Washington .

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    Courthouse and Jailhouse Rock

    Courthouse and Jail Rocks are two rock formations located near Bridgeport in the Nebraska Panhandle. The Oregon-California Trail, the Mormon Trail, the Pony Express Trail and the Sidney-Deadwood Trail all ran near the rocks.

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    Arches National Park

    Source: aarp.net

    Arches National Park is a US National Park in eastern Utah. The park is located on the Colorado River 4 miles north of Moab, Utah.

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    Mount Rushmore National Memorial

    Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota.

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    Kettle Moraine State Forest

    Source: dnr.wi.gov

    The Kettle Moraine State Forest is a state forest in southeastern Wisconsin. The chief feature of the reserve is the Kettle Moraine, a highly glaciated area.

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    Upper Cataract Falls

    Cataract Falls is a waterfall located in northern Owen County in the west central part of the U.S. state of Indiana. The largest waterfall by volume in the state.

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    Universal Orlando

    The Universal Orlando Resort, commonly known as Universal Orlando, is a theme park resort in Orlando, Florida. It is wholly owned by NBCUniversal and its affiliates.

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    Go to a big fight in Las Vegas

    Few events are more gladiatorial than world championship boxing in Vegas.

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    Hersheypark

    Source: wikimedia.org

    Hersheypark is a family theme park situated in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles east of Harrisburg, and 95 miles west of Philadelphia.

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    Cumberland State Resort Park, Kentucky

    Lake Cumberland State Resort Park is a state park located on the northern shore of Lake Cumberland near Jamestown, Kentucky in Russell County.

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    Theater

    There are 39 theaters in operation on Broadway today, most packed in a small area called the “Great White Way.” Any visit to the city should contain at least one show, whether it’s seeing an edgy new work or a classic piece.

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    Shop till you drop on Black Friday

    The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday, because that is when retailers are said go “into the black”, into profit. This is the kick off to the Christmas shopping season, with sales in malls and outlets. Stores slash prices; shoppers battle for bargains.

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    Las Vegas Strip

    The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, internationally known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos along its route.

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    See Bizarre and Weird Places

    In Baker, California you’ll find the world’s tallest thermometer, which is 134-feet high. In Lamar, Colorado you can stop in at a gas station made from petrified wood. Over in Darwin, Minnesota you might want to see the largest ball of string in the world. It weighs 17,400 pounds and has a diameter of 12 feet.

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    Meeting people from all over the world

    America is still the Melting Pot of the World and there are 254 countries in the world and 198 different nationalities live in the U.S.

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    Kings Island

    Kings Island is a 364-acre amusement park located 24 miles northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio.

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    Six Flags Magic Mountain

    Source: hilton.com

    Six Flags Magic Mountain is a 262-acre theme park located in Valencia, California, north of Los Angeles.

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    California Wine Country

    Some of the best wine in the world comes from Northern California’s wine country. Visitors can tour this beautiful part of the U.S. for reasonable rates. Most wineries are open to the public for educational tours and wine tasting.

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    Sporting Events

    No other country in the world invests so much in sports as the U.S. Almost every city in the U.S. is a place to watch some of the best college and professional athletes in the world play in some of the most spectacular sports stadiums imaginable. Don’t underestimate the college games.

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    Museum of Modern Art

    Source: huffpost.com

    The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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    Access to Nature

    Every country has areas of natural beauty, but in many countries it is difficult to access and enjoy the natural world. Sometimes these beautiful areas become tourist traps or are so remote that only the bravest adventurer would dare enter. But Americans have done a good job of developing inroads to the natural wonders of North America without destroying the environment.

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    Georgia Aquarium

    The Georgia Aquarium is a public aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It houses tens of thousands of animals, representing several hundred species.

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    Blue Ridge Parkway

    Source: wikimedia.org

    The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States.

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