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  • #1

    Iconic USA

    If you were to define the US by a limited number of iconic attractions and sites, what would they be?

    Which would be, say, the top 25 sites in the US that everyone has to visit?

    I'm thinking stuff like: (in no particular order)

    The Grand Canyon, Empire State Building, Mount Rushmore, The Alamo, Yellowstone National Park, Golden Gate Bridge etc...
    Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?
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    The White House
    Lincoln Memorial
    St Louis Arch
    Jefferson Davis Monument (ok not really )
    meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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    • #3
      Dinosaur National Monument
      I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
      For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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      • #4
        Originally posted by mrmitchell

        Jefferson Davis Monument (ok not really )
        it should be bombed...

        and so should that thing in georgia... the georgia "mt rushmore" depicting Lee and Davis...

        traitors of the US should not have monuments

        in fact, on every 4th of July we should burn confederate flags
        To us, it is the BEAST.

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        • #5
          In no particular order (oh and PS, mrmitchell, I don't think so):

          Hooters
          Empire State Building/statue of liberty/central park (no need to go see central park, that's not speciall, but since you ARE there already, why not, so this should be treated as one entity)
          Golden Gate
          Alcatraz
          NASA museum thingie
          any big amusement park
          Las Vegas Strip
          French Quarters in NO (when they get back up)
          Chinese Theater in LA if one MUST go, otherwise skip that town it suuucks
          Well OK Lincoln Memorial is OK, it's iconic enough yes.
          In da butt.
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          • #6
            lets not forget pearl harbor,
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            • #7
              This list of 25 may not make for great postcards but will give one a good idea of what this country is all about, good and bad.

              Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas
              International Boulevard, Oakland

              Agribusiness in midwest states
              Subsistence farming in the Appalachia

              Yale University
              New Haven High School

              San Jose, California
              Detroit, Michigan

              a Walmart Supercenter
              main street of adjacent small town

              Interchange between Interstates 5 and 10, Los Angeles
              Penn Station, New York

              Exurban tract homes in Phoenix
              Cabrini Green housing project, Chicago

              SoHo, New York City
              a NASCAR raceway

              Grand Canyon National Park
              Open pit copper mines in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, etc.

              Miami Beach
              Barrow, Alaska

              A shopping mall
              A DMV office

              Crystal Cathedral, Southern California
              Storefront church in any major city

              and finally

              New Orleans
              Visit First Cultural Industries
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              • #8
                Smithsonian worth a visit? The Phoenix is there, no?

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                • #9
                  Statue of Liberty
                  I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                  • #10
                    Corn Palace
                    Mitchell, South Dakota
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                    • #11
                      Speaking of US icons, I was watching a show on TV last week, and one icon the host picked was the Statue of Liberty. What is intesting is his remark, paraphrased below:

                      But after 9-11, the stairs was closed indefinitely, with no plans of re-opening it. Sadly, terror has won.
                      (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                      (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                      (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                      • #12
                        There's no law against retards hosting TV shows.
                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #13
                          But after 9-11, the stairs was closed indefinitely, with no plans of re-opening it. Sadly, terror has won.
                          Big hairy deal. You can still visit the observation platform.
                          I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                          For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                          • #14
                            Are elevators more terror-proof than stairs then?
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                            • #15
                              Beats me.
                              I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                              For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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