Tuesday, June 12, 2007

How many American Icons have you seen?

I was on fodors.com today and read an article about American Icons and how people travel to Europe and other places and never see the amazing places we have here in the United States.

Here is their top then list:

Grand Canyon
The Everglades
The Golden Gate Bridge
Graceland
Mount Rushmore
Disneyland
The Arch in St.Louis
The Empire State Building
The Mall in DC
Yosemite

Here are their runner-ups:

The head waters of the Mississippi River
Taos Pueblo - Taos, NM
Glacier National Park - West Glacier, Montana
Atlantic City Boardwalk
The Great Dismal Swamp (southeastern Virginia, northeastern North Carolina)
Arches National Park - Moab, Utah
The Corn Palace - Mitchell, South Dakota
The Badlands - southwestern South Dakota
St. Augustine's Alligator Farm
Death Valley - eastern California
Chesapeke Bay Bridge-Tunnel
Sunset Celebration in Mallory Square - Key West, Florida


I am lucky enough to have been to a number of the places in these two lists. I agree with a lot of these places but think that there are a lot of amazing places that were left off. For example:

Statue of Liberty
Smithsonian
Disney World
Pacific Ocean
Yellowstone


What would you add to this list?

Here's to all of your summer travels!
Cathy

1 comment:

Unknown said...

How about Yankee Stadium, Hoover Dam, Mt Kilauea (sp?), Carlsbad Caverns, and Gettysburg? i definitely agree with Yellowstone over Yosemite, though!