Hey Yanks!

[Dinner]

The Giant Redwoods and Yosemite shouldn't be missed if you're in the area.

[SlowwHand]

Yosemete rocks.

[Perfection]

PENN & TELLER

[Guynemer]

No one has mentioned Alaska yet?

[Japher]

Yosemite sucks though (not really, just making fun of Sloww's speling abillity)

[Alexander I]

Here's my top 10 unconventional but interesting American places to see, in no particular order.

1. Cahokia, Illinois
2. Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
3. Hoover Dam, Nevada-Arizona border
4. The Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri
5. Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah
6. Mesa Verde, Colorado
7. Henderson, Nevada
8. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
9. Nauvoo, Illinois
10. Alcatraz, San Francisco, California

[Dinner]

I'd like to go to Cahokia. I've wanted to ever since I read 1491.

[SlowwHand]

Then get off your dead ass and GO!

[Lancer]

To get the true picture that encompasses the US just get a cityscape of Vancouver BC.

That's right, pictures that encompass the US have also been outsourced.

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'd like to go to Cahokia. I've wanted to ever since I read 1491.

Totally go. The place is awesome. It's the closest thing the US has to an ancient ruined city.

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Guynemer
No one has mentioned Alaska yet?

Alaska doesn't patriotically burn an American flag!

[Zkribbler]

1) Manhattan -- (a) because it's the economic heart of the U.S. and (6) because it's the best example we have of city planning. Governor DeWitt Clinton leveled the hills, filled in the swamps, numberial named the N/S roads "avenues" and the E/W roads "streets." When the immigrants swarmed into the city in the 19th Century, they could find their way around even though they couldn't speak English.

2) Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., by far our most definitive museum. Lindburgh's Spirit of St. Louis, the Wright Bros' plane, a Mercury space capsule.

3) Kennedy Space Center during a launch. Prepare to be awed

4) Colonial Williamsburg

5) St. Louis Arch -- not only is this a dazzling piece of construction but it memorializes the fact that St. Louis was the gateway to the West. It's here that the wagontrains departed

6) Iowa/Kansas/Nebraska -- I recommend flying over some of these states to get an idea of our agriculture.

7) Either Yellowstone or Yosemite -- While I don't think natual phenomenon are definitive of the people who are lucky to live nearby, the way we treasure and protect these natural wonders says something about us.

8) Fly over the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. This sight floored Kruschev when he came here in the 60's and saw single family houses with swimming pools as far as he could see and he learned these were the homes of the working class. They are definitive to what's happening in America because, now, few of the homes are owned by working people. Rather, they are owned by absentee landlords, who rent out the place, sometimes to multiple families.

9) Hollywood filming -- Not one of those studio tour they show nothing. But you can find places through Los Angeles were filming is going on. Usually, it's as boring as crap but it's cool to say you saw them filming "Die Hard 4" or whatever.

10) Panama Canal --Okay, it's not exactly in the U.S. but it's definitive of us, showing our audaciousness, optomism, and ingenuity. Before we tried, France sent the greatest canal designer in the world to try, and he failed miserably at the cost of 16,000 lives. We built the Canal and defeated Yellow Fever in the process.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Canadian side is way better.

True.

I'd replace Philadelphia or Boston with a drive down I-40 from Kansas City to Denver

I-70 goes from KC to Denver; I-40 goes from Little Rock to Albuquerque. And I-80 pwns both of them...

[Zkribbler]

The Canadian side is way better.

Bah! If you want to see a waterfall, check out Angel Falls in Venezuela.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Bah! If you want to see a waterfall, check out Angel Falls in Venezuela.

Which is helpful how to showing people a snapshot of America?