Could You Pass a US Road-Trip Geography Test?
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Question 1
Which Famous Road Is Known As 'The Mother Road'?
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Where Is The Grand Canyon Located?
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Which Great Lake Is The Largest By Surface Area?
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What State Would You Be In At Mount Rushmore?
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Which City Is Known As The Windy City?
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Which State Do You Drive Through On The Florida Keys?
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Where Is Yellowstone National Park Primarily Located?
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Which Ocean Does California's Coast Face?
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What Is The Longest River In The United States?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Las Vegas Strip?
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Which State Is Home To The Alamo?
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Where Is Niagara Falls Located In The US?
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Which City Is Known As The Birthplace Of Jazz?
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What Is The Tallest Mountain In The United States?
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Where Is The Gateway Arch Located?
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Which State Is Cape Cod Located In?
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Which City Is Home To The Liberty Bell?
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Which State Is Home To The Rocky Mountains?
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Which State Would You Visit To See The Smoky Mountains?
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What City Is Known As The Space City?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Napa Valley?
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Which State Is Famous For The Outer Banks?
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What Is The Capital City Of Texas?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Mardi Gras Celebration?
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What City Is Known As The Music City?
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Where Is The Famous Hollywood Sign Located?
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Which State Would You Drive Through To See The Blue Ridge Parkway?
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What Is The Capital City Of Florida?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Albuquerque Balloon Festival?
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Where Would You Find The Famous Space Needle?
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Where Is The Famous Golden Gate Bridge Located?
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What City Is Known As The Windy City Of The South?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Bourbon Trail?
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Where Would You Find Crater Lake National Park?
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What Is The Capital City Of Georgia?
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Which State Would You Visit To See Acadia National Park?
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Which State Would You Drive Through To See Glacier National Park?
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What City Is Known As The Birthplace Of Country Music?
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Where Is The Famous Beale Street Located?
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What Is The Capital City Of California?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Chesapeake Bay?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Myrtle Beach?
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Which State Is Home To The Famous Savannah Historic District?
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Which State Would You Visit To See Arches National Park?
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Where Would You Find The Famous Alamo?
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What City Is Known As The Big Apple?
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Route 66
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The Lincoln Highway
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The Blue Ridge Parkway
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Highway 1
John Steinbeck coined 'The Mother Road' in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, and the nickname stuck forever.
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Arizona
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Colorado
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Nevada
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Utah
The Grand Canyon sits in northwestern Arizona and was carved by the Colorado River over roughly six million years.
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Lake Erie
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Lake Superior
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Lake Ontario
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Lake Michigan
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, bigger than the entire state of South Carolina.
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South Dakota
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Montana
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North Dakota
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Wyoming
Mount Rushmore sits in the Black Hills of South Dakota and took sculptor Gutzon Borglum fourteen years to complete.
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Detroit
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Chicago
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Kansas City
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Milwaukee
Many historians believe Chicago earned the nickname in the 1890s from boastful politicians, not just its breezy lakefront weather.
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South Carolina
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Alabama
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Florida
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Georgia
The Overseas Highway stretches 113 miles through the Florida Keys and crosses 42 bridges over open ocean water.
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Idaho
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Colorado
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Montana
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Wyoming
Yellowstone, established in 1872 as America's first national park, sits mostly in Wyoming and holds half the world's geysers.
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The Atlantic Ocean
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The Pacific Ocean
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The Gulf Of Mexico
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The Arctic Ocean
California's 840-mile coastline runs along the Pacific, making Pacific Coast Highway one of America's most scenic drives.
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The Mississippi River
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The Ohio River
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The Missouri River
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The Colorado River
The Missouri River stretches about 2,341 miles, edging out the Mississippi River by roughly 20 miles for the top spot.
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Nevada
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California
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Arizona
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Utah
The Las Vegas Strip opened its first resort in 1941, and today its bright neon lights are visible from space at night.
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Arizona
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Texas
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New Mexico
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Oklahoma
The Alamo sits in San Antonio, Texas, and was the site of a famous 1836 battle for Texas independence.
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Ohio
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Michigan
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New York
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Pennsylvania
The US side of Niagara Falls is in New York, though Canada shares the falls across the border.
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Nashville
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New Orleans
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Atlanta
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Memphis
New Orleans gave birth to jazz around 1900, blending African rhythms, blues, and brass band music.
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Denali
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Pikes Peak
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Mount Whitney
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Mount Rainier
Denali in Alaska stands at 20,310 feet and was officially renamed from Mount McKinley in 2015.
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Cincinnati
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Kansas City
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St. Louis
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Indianapolis
Completed in 1965, the 630-foot Gateway Arch in St. Louis symbolizes America's westward expansion.
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Massachusetts
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Rhode Island
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Maine
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Connecticut
Cape Cod juts into the Atlantic from Massachusetts and has been a beloved summer destination since the 1800s.
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Boston
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Baltimore
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Philadelphia
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Washington DC
The Liberty Bell has been on display in Philadelphia since 1776 and its famous crack appeared around 1846.
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Kansas
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Michigan
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Oregon
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Colorado
Colorado's Rocky Mountains include over 50 peaks above 14,000 feet, earning them the nickname 'the Fourteeners.'
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Georgia
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Virginia
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Tennessee
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Kentucky
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the US, welcoming over 12 million visitors a year.
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Orlando
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Houston
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Huntsville
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Dallas
Houston earned the nickname Space City because NASA's Mission Control Center has been based there since 1961.
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Oregon
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Washington
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California
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Arizona
Napa Valley became world-famous after the 1976 Paris Wine Tasting, where California wines beat French wines in a blind competition.
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South Carolina
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Virginia
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Georgia
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North Carolina
The Outer Banks is where the Wright Brothers made their first successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
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San Antonio
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Dallas
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Austin
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Houston
Austin became Texas's capital in 1839 and was named after Stephen F. Austin, known as the Father of Texas.
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Mississippi
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Louisiana
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Florida
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Alabama
New Orleans' Mardi Gras dates back to 1699 when French explorers celebrated the holiday near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
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Memphis
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Nashville
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Austin
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Atlanta
Nashville earned the nickname Music City in the 1950s when the Grand Ole Opry made it the heart of country music.
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Los Angeles
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Sacramento
The Hollywood Sign was originally erected in 1923 as an advertisement for a real estate development called Hollywoodland.
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Kentucky
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West Virginia
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Maryland
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Virginia
The Blue Ridge Parkway stretches 469 miles through Virginia and North Carolina and is America's most visited national park site.
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Tampa
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Miami
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Tallahassee
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Orlando
Tallahassee became Florida's capital in 1824 because it was the midpoint between the two largest cities at the time, Pensacola and St. Augustine.
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Nevada
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Colorado
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New Mexico
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Arizona
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta began in 1972 and is now the largest hot air balloon event in the world.
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Denver
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Portland
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Salt Lake City
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Seattle
Seattle's Space Needle was built for the 1962 World's Fair and was designed to withstand winds of up to 200 miles per hour.
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Sacramento
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San Francisco
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Los Angeles
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San Diego
Completed in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
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Little Rock
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Oklahoma City
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Birmingham
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Memphis
Oklahoma City sits in Tornado Alley and experiences some of the strongest sustained winds of any major US city.
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Tennessee
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Georgia
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Kentucky
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Virginia
Kentucky produces about 95% of the world's bourbon supply, and the official Kentucky Bourbon Trail launched in 1999.
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Washington
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Idaho
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Montana
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Oregon
Crater Lake formed about 7,700 years ago after a volcanic eruption collapsed Mount Mazama, making it the deepest lake in the US.
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Macon
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Atlanta
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Augusta
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Savannah
Atlanta became Georgia's capital in 1868 and is also home to the world's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson.
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Vermont
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Maine
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Connecticut
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New Hampshire
Acadia National Park, established in 1919, was the first national park created east of the Mississippi River.
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Idaho
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Montana
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Wyoming
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Colorado
Glacier National Park spans over a million acres in Montana and shares a border with Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park.
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Bristol
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Nashville
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Memphis
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Knoxville
Bristol, Tennessee is officially recognized by Congress as the birthplace of country music after famous 1927 recording sessions there.
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Atlanta
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Memphis
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Nashville
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Louisville
Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee is called the Home of the Blues and was where W.C. Handy helped popularize the genre.
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Sacramento
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Los Angeles
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San Diego
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San Francisco
Sacramento became California's permanent state capital in 1854 and was a key hub during the famous Gold Rush era.
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Virginia
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North Carolina
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Maryland
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Delaware
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and is famous for its blue crabs and oysters.
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North Carolina
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Virginia
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South Carolina
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Georgia
Myrtle Beach sits along South Carolina's Grand Strand, a 60-mile stretch of coastline beloved by road-trippers.
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South Carolina
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Mississippi
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Georgia
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Virginia
Savannah's historic district features 22 stunning public squares, making it one of the most beautifully planned cities in America.
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Colorado
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Arizona
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Nevada
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Utah
Utah's Arches National Park contains over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the iconic Delicate Arch seen on Utah license plates.
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Dallas
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El Paso
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San Antonio
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Houston
The Alamo in San Antonio was originally built as a Spanish mission in 1718 before its famous 1836 battle.
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Philadelphia
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New York City
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Chicago
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Boston
Jazz musicians in the 1920s used 'The Big Apple' to mean New York City, the ultimate prize gig.
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