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STATE ATTRACTIONS
CARMALT - United States' famous attractions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sears Tower is the tallest building in the U.S., located in Chicago | Illinois |
| Alamo Museum in San Antonio | Texas |
| U.S.S. Nautilus Museum in Groton contains world's first nuclear submarine, built in 1954 | Connecticut |
| Devil's Tower in the Black Hills | Wyoming |
| Annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Little Diomede Island is 2.5 miles from Russia; Mt. McKinley is country's highest point | Alaska |
| Town of Santa Claus features a holiday-themed amusement park | Indiana |
| World's smallest official park (452 square inches) is Mills Ends Park for Leprechauns; Crater Lake is nation's deepest @ 1932 feet | Oregon |
| Crazy Horse Memorial; Mt. Rushmore, Black Hills and Badlands | South Dakota |
| Edison National Historic Site in West Orange is where movies were created; Cape May is the oldest seaside resort town in the U.S. | New Jersey |
| Rainbow Bridge is largest natural bridge in the world; "Four Corners" plaque where 4 states touch | Utah |
| Petrified forest in Flora with giant stone trees 36 million years old | Mississippi |
| Pike's Peak at 14,110 feet was the inspiration for Katherine Lee Bates' "America the Beautiful" | Colorado |
| Avery Island, where Tabasco Sauce was first made, is actually the top of an underground salt dome | Louisiana |
| 5-Mile Long Mackinac (Big Mac) Bridge joins Upper and Lower Peninsulas of this state | Michigan |
| Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown; Liberty Island holds Statue of Liberty | New York |
| Meteor Crater in Coconino County; Grand Canyon | Arizona |
| The Wild West's Dodge City called "The Wickedest Little City in America" in the 1870s | Kansas |
| Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park at high tide | Maine |
| Glacier National Park; Pompey's Pillar named by William Clark for Sacagawea's infant son | Montana |
| Hells Canyon on the Snake River is even deeper than the Grand Canyon; Craters of the Moon National Monument | Idaho |
| Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt Memorials; Washington Monumnet; Supreme Court, Capitol Building, Smithsonian Museum | District of Columbia |
| Stone Mountain carvings of Confederate leaders near Atlanta | Georgia |
| Lake Champlain is rumored to be the home of "Champ" the ancient plesiosaur that may be the U.S. version of the Lock Ness Monster | Vermont |
| Model rockets at the NASA-Goddard Visitor Center in Greenbelt; Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base | Maryland |
| Newport's Cliff Walk; Block Island's bicycle trails | Rhode Island |
| 14th Century Viking Runestone in Alexandria; Mall of America in Bloomington is U.S. largest indoor shopping mall | Minnesota |
| U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville also known as "Rocket City, USA" | Alabama |
| Chimney Rock landmark along the Oregon Trail; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and home is in North Platte | Nebraska |
| A stalactite "pipe organ" is in Luray Caverns; Pony Penning of the wild ponies on Chincoteague Island; Colonial Williamsburg | Virginia |
| Magnolia Plantation and Gardens includes the Audubon Swamp Garden in Charleston | South Carolina |
| Effigy Mounds National Monument near Harpers Ferry | Iowa |
| Hershey's Chocolae World; Punxsutawney Phil is the offiicial Groundhog Day groundhog; Liberty Bell, Gettysburg | Pennsylvania |
| World's largest freshwater aquarium is located in Chattanooga; Graceland | Tennessee |
| Plimoth Plantation and the Mayflower II; Basketball Hall of Fame | Massachusetts |
| Natural granite formation called "Old Man of the Mountain" in the White Mountains | New Hampshire |
| A public diamond mine where it's "Finders-Keepers"; Great Passion Play Theme Park; Birthplace of Walmart | Arkansas |
| Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System is the longest in the world at 340 miles; Home of Colonel Sanders and his famous chicken | Kentucky |
| Baraboo's Circus World was the start of the Ringling Brothers' Circus | Wisconsin |
| Football Hall of Fame in Canton; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland | Ohio |
| "Blowing Rock" overhanging the John's River Gorge is where snow falls up; Great Smoky Mountains National Park | North Carolina |
| Capital Music Hall is located at the start of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, the oldest operating suspension bridge in the world | West Virginia |
| Naval Base at Pearl Harbor | Hawaii |
| Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park; Bristlecone Pine Forest in Great Basin National Park is home to world's oldest trees | Nevada |
| Rehoboth Beach was the site for the first beauty pageant in 1880 where Thomas Edison was a judge | Delaware |
| Meramec Caverns near Stanton was the hideout for famous outlaw Jesse James; Mark Twain's boyhood home; "Gateway to the West" is in St. Louis | Missouri |
| Mount Saint Helens; Experience the Music Museum; Space Needle; rainforest | Washington |
| Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center; Everglades National Park; Walt Disney World; The Keys | Florida |
| Worlds largest living thing in Sequoia National Park is a redwood tree; golden hills; Fisherman's Wharf; Disneyland | California |
| Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the Badlands | North Dakota |
| The Bats of Carlsbad Cavern; UFO Museum in Roswell; Albuquerque National Balloon Festival | New Mexico |
| Tsa-La-Gi Ancient Village in Tahlequah; Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and Cherokee Heritage Center | Oklahoma |
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