1. California

1. Highway 1, or pacific coast highway.

2. Hearst Castle, owned by William Randolph Hearst

3. Lake Nacimiento in Paso Robles

4. Big Sur: the most beautiful coastline in California

5. Bixby Creek Bridge: one of the world’s highest single arch bridges.

6. Carmel

7. Monterey Peninsula, Monterey Bay

8. Pebble Beach, a perfect beach for golf

9. Salinas Valley, the salad bowl of America

10. Santa Cruz, a classic surf town with a laidback attitude and a focus for fun

11. Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge

12. San Francisco

13. Alcatraz Island, the Federal Penitentiary

14. Auckland, a big port

15. Point Reyes, a major sanctuary for birds

16. San Andreas Fault, the sliding boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

2. Hawaii

1. James Cook, the first European to set foot on the island

2. The Mauna Kea Hotel, owned by Rockefeller

3. Waipio Valley

4. Parker Ranch

5. Mauna Kea Volcano

6. Mauna Loa Volcano

7. Kilauea Volcano

8. Maui

9. The port city of Lahaina on Maui’s west coast is the center of the pacific whaling industry

10. Pu’u Kukui, the highest peak in the mountain

11. Charles Augustus Lindbergh

12. The island of Lanai, Bill Gates’ wedding

13. The island of Molokai

14. The island of Oahu

15. Honolulu, the state capital and the largest city in Hawaii

16. Waikiki, the best surfing place in the world

17. Diamond head Volcano

18. Pearl Harbor

19. Kauai, the last and the oldest of the eight Hawaii islands

20. Waimea Canyon, the grand canyon of the pacific

21. Mount Waialeale, Jurassic Falls

3. Virginia

1. James River, the artery that first led European settlers to the new American continent

2. Jamestown Island, where the story of Virginia and a nation begins

3. Norfolk, the world’s largest natural harbor, a navy base

4. Norfolk Macarthur Sqaure, Macarthur Museum

5. Fort Monroe

6. Yorktown

7. Chincoteague island

8. Virginia Beach

9. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel

10. Colonial Williamsburg, the most ambitious living history museum in the US

11. Shirley Plantation

12. Richmond, RIR: Richmond International Raceway

13. Monument Avenue

14. Arthur Ashe, the first African-American winner of Wimbledon

15. Charlottesville, a college town

16. Monticello

17. UVA: University of Virginia

18. Mclean House

19. Shenandoah Valley

20. Blue ridge mountain

21. Lexington

22. Natural Bridge, the bridge of God

23. Foamhenge

24. Appalachia

25. Cumberland Gap

26. Bristol

4. Connecticut

1. Mohegan Sun Casino and Hotel

2. Mohegan Burial Ground

3. Prudence Crandall, in March 1833, Crandall opened a school for black girls in Canterbury

4. New Haven, the first city in the US to use a grid system

5. Yale University, named after Elihu Yale

6. Harkness Tower, the university’s landmark

7. Land of the sleeping giant, Hobomock

8. Hartford, the capital, the insurance capital of America

9. Samuel Colt

10. Coltsville National Historical Park

11. The Rocky Hill Glastonbury Ferry

12. The Pinchot Sycamore

13. Groton, homeport to 16 attack submarines

14. Mystic Seaport, US’ largest maritime museum

15. Igor Sikorsky

5. Tennessee

1. Nashville, the world capital for country music

2. The Great Smoky Mountains

3. Dollywood, a them park built by country music superstar Dolly Parton

4. Hall of Fame for Women Basketball

5. Oak Ridge, atomic bomb

6. Jack Daniel

7. The Monkey Trial

8. The Trail of Tears

9. Country Music Fame of Hall

10. WSM, a radio station

11. The Grand Ole Opry, the longest continuous running live radio show

12. Highway 61, also known as the blues trail

13. Beale Street, the home of blues

14. Graceland

15. Martin Luthur King was killed in Memphis.

16. The Great American Pyramid

17. Fedex Forum

6. Vermont

1. Lake Champlain

2. Burlington

3. Winooski River

4. Old Round Church

5. Ben&Jerry’s ice cream factory

6. Snowflake Bentley

7. Von Trapp family, the sound of music, Trapp Family Lodge

8. Goddard College, Plainfield, a bohemian mecca for communes and hippies

9. The Long Trail

10. Woodstock, the prettiest small town in America

11. The Quechee Gorge

7. Arkansas

1. Louisiana Purchase

2. The Crater of Diamonds State Park

3. Little Rock High School

4. Ozark Mountains

5. The Christ of the Ozarks

6. Bentonville, headquarter of Walmart

7. Fort Chaffee

8. Nuclear One

8. South Carolina

Charleston

Cooper River

Ashley River

USS Yorktown, America’s oldest aircraft carrier

Charleston Harbor

The Arthur Ravenel Bridge

Grand Strand, a long beach

Francis Marion National Forest

Swamp Fox, Mel Gibson

The Ellis Island of Slavery

Columbia, the capital

Greer, BMW factory, the Detroit of the South

Savannah River Site, a base for nuclear weapons

Parris Island, home to the US Marine Corps

9. Massachusetts

Mayflower, Cape Cod

Plymouth

Boston, puritans

Harvard

MIT

The Declaration of Independence

Freedom Trail

The Curse of the Bambino

Walden Pond

Salem’s Witch Trials

Springfield, birth place of basketball

Basketball Hall of Fame

James Naismith, inventor of basketball game

Fall Foliage

10. Oregon

Portland

Monkey Face, rock climbing

Smith Rock, rock climbing

Lava Land

The Town of Antelope, home to a christian youth camp, Indian guru, Bhagwan, Shree Rajneesh

Rajneespuram

Wind Farms

Google Server Farm

Vista Point, overview of the Columbia River

Columbia River Highway Project, the first planned scenic highway in the US

The Three Sisters, the highest peak, mount Thielsen

University of Oregon, near the city of Eugene

Hayward Field, track town USA

Beaverton, headquarters of NIKE

Portland Harbor, the largest wheat export in the US, and import of cars

The International Rose Test Garden

Mount Hood

Crater Lake

11. Rhode Island

The Ocean State

Brown University

Blackstone River

Narragansett Bay

Jamestown-Newport Bridge

St. Mary’s Church, wedding for John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouriver

Newport, the city called Kennedy’s Summer White House

Gilded Age

Fort Adams

The Ida Lewis Yacht Light House

Block Island

12. Maine

York, York Harbor and York Beach

Gorges, the father of Maine

The Isles and Shoals

Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, named after writer Rachel Carson

Kennebunkport

The Wedding Cake House

Mount Katahdin, the highest in Maine

The Blueberry Fields

Augusta, the capital

Bath Iron Works, producing Military Ships

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Brunnswick

Bangor, Stephen King

Henry Knox Fort

Acadia National Park

Margaret Todd

13. Washington

The Ring of Fire

Mount Rainier

Fredrick Weyerhaeuser, Weyerhaeuser Mills

Seattle, Starbucks

Bill Gates Manson

Drumheller Fountain

Olympia, the capital

William Boeing

The Space Needle

Yakima Valley, apples

Hanford, nuclear site

Puget Sound, a bay

San Juan Islands, the pig war

St. Helens Volcano

Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and Nintendo

14. New Hampshire

Portsmouth

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

New Hampshire, birthplace of anti-slavery party, Republicans

Manchester, hometown for McDonalds

Ray Kroc, the so-called founder of McDonalds

The mother of Rivers

MacDowell Colony, a town for artists

Live free or die, death is not the worst of evils!

-- John Stark

15. Georgia

Gold Rush

White gold: cotton

Augusta

Augusta National Gold Club

Stone Mount, a civil war monument

Atalanta, the capital

The Centennial Olympic Park, 1996 Summer Olympics

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

CNN

Sweet Auburn, birthplace for Martin Luther King

Cater Center

For Benning, home for US Army Infantry School

Athens-Rome

16. 17. Maryland and Delaware

Fort Mchenry in Baltimore

The Defense of Fort Mchenry, later the Star-spangled banner and became the national anthem in 1931

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge

The US Naval Academy

Ocean City

US Route 40, the national road, the gateway to the west

Baltimore, birthplace of railway

Thurgood Marshall

George Herman Babe Ruth

Delaware, the first state

Dupont, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware

Fort Delaware

The National Harbor of Refuge, a place where any ship can seek calm waters in times of emergency

18. North Carolina

Kitty Hawk

Wright Brothers Monument

Pepsi-Cola

RTP -- The Research Triangle Park

Bullpen

Tobacco, the state’s No.1 export crop

Jim Crow Laws

Woolworth’s Lunch Counter

The Dream of the Greensboro Four

Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the eastern US

Baltimore Estate: The largest private house in the US

Charlotte, hometown of Nascar

19. New York

Ellis Island, the gateway to America

Rikers Island, prison

Tappan Zee Bridge

Hudson River

Sing Sing Prison

The Catskill Mountains

West Point

Woodstock

Albany, the capital

New Skete, a religious setting

Lake Placid, the winter Olympics 1980

The Miracle on Ice

Erie Canal

Susan Anthony, abolitionist and women’s rights leader, leading to the 19th amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote

Eastman Kodak

Bausch & Lomb

Xerox

20. Lousiana

New Orleans

Oil Industry

Louisana Offshore Oilport

Port Fourchon

Port Hudson Battle Field

Port Hudson National Cemetery

Louisana Purchase

Cancer Valley

Huey. P. Long

Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the US

Tabasco Sauce

Bird City

21. Michigan

Model T

Dearborn, headquarters of Ford

Greenfield Village, a place set up by Ford to celebrate inventions

Henry Ford Museum

Detroit

The Fisher Building

The Islamic Center of America

The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

The City of Sault Sainte Marie, home to the Soo Locks

The Annual Labor Day Crossing of Michigan’s Mighty Mac Bridge

The Mackinac Bridge

The Straights of Mackinac

U. P., the upper peninsula

G. M.

Frankenmuth, a German Community

Kellogg Company, headquartered in Battle Creek, producing Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Pringles, Eggo, Cheez-T

Battle Creek, a cereal city

Wolverines Football Team, U of M

Michigan’s Big House

Peace Corps

8 mile

22. New Mexico

San Augustin, the very large array

Ship Rock

The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge

Albuquerque, the largest city of N.M

The Valley of Fire

Bonanza Creek, a filming base

Los Alamos National Laboratory, atomic bomb

The Roswell’s UFO Museum

Roswell Airport, home to a private airplane salvage yard

Santa Fe Opera House

Las Vegas, New Mexico

No Country for Old Men

23. Colorado

The Colorado Mineral Belt

Aspen, ski resort

The Maroon Bells, the deadly bells

Ziegler Reservior, ancient bones

Yule Marble

Denver, the capital

Sleeper House

The Mile High Stadium

Denver Broncos, home team

Columbine, school shooting

Colorado’s Bread Basket

The Red Rocks Amphitheater

The Garden of the God

Colorado Springs, a national hub of Christian fundamentalist worship, and the mecca of conservative christianity

The Cadet Chapel at the US Air Force Academy

Peterson Air Force Base

NORAD

Supermax, prison

The Manitou Incline

The US Olympic Training Center

The Colorado Rockies

24. Nevada

Carson, a big Chinese community

The Pyramid Lake, oasis in the desert

The Hoover Dam

The Mike O’callaghan-pat Tillman Memorial Bridge

Las Vegas

Route 50, the loneliest road in America

Fernley, home to Amazon’s largest facility

The Valley of Fire

Lake Tahoe

The Moonlite Bunny Ranch

Reno, the divorce capital

25. Mississippi

Natchez, once a primary cotton hub and slave market

Natchez Trace

Camp Shelby, the largest state-run field training site

Kosciusko, birthplace of Oprah Winfrey

Tupelo, birthplace of Elvis Presley

The Blue Suede Cruise, an annual car show at the Tupelo Automobile Museum

The legendary Delta Blues, an art farm

Mississipi River Delta

Clarksdale, ground zero for the blues

Hancock, NASA rocket engines test facility, the Stennis Space Center

26. Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

The Statue of William Penn

The annual Navy Day Regatta

The Nittany Lions Football Team, Beaver Stadium

The Horseshoe Curve

Pittsburgh, city of bridges

The Pittsburgh Steelers

Milto Hershey

Hershey Park

Yuengling Beer

Gettysburg

Fort Indian Town Gap, base for national guard

Flight 93 National Memorial

The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant

Environmental damages caused by industry

27. Florida

Florida Natural, orange juice

Miami Beach

The Fontainebleau Hotel, a Miami landmark

Barefoot mailmen

The Florida East Coast Railway

The Freedom Tower, or the Cuban Assistance Center

The Marlins, a stadium for Miami’s baseball team

Gianni Versace, killed in Miami

The Seven Mile Bridge, connecting Miami and Key West

Lake Okeechobee

The Tamiami Trail

The Tamiami Canal

Cape Canaveral, Home of the Kennedy Space Center

The HM69 Nike Missile Base

Splendid China, a decommissioned them park

Jumbolair Aviation Estates

The Grapefruit League, spring training

Gatorade

28. Kansas

The Monument Rocks

The Dodge City

Cheyenne Bottoms, wetlands for birds

Amelia Earhart, a fearless aviatrix born in Atchison

Stearman Biplane

Witchita, once the air capital city

Clyde Cessna

Beechcraft

Learjet

Olive Brown lawsuit against board of education in Topeka

In Cold Blood, a book

Fort Leavenworth Army Base

The Command and General Staff College -- five five-star generals in modern times: George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Henry Arnold, Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower

Pratt Army Air Field

Brutus

Kansas Underground Salt Museum

29. Alabama

Diexie Alley

Phil Campbell

Birmingham, the largest city of the state

Sloss Furnaces

Thyssenkrupp Steel Mill

Benz plant, the only one in the US

Alabama, the Detroit of the south

Mobile Bay

Africatown, clotilda

Rosa Parks

Jim Crow Laws

15th amendment had given blacks the right to vote in 1870

The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail

The Talladega Superspeedway

Talladega Jinx, a curse

Huntsville, rocket city

The port of Bayou la Batre, Forrest Gump

30. Oklahoma

Route 66

J Pual Getty

Devon Energy

Devon Tower

Chesapeake Energy

Chesapeake Arena

The site of the Oklahoma City Bombing

Fort Sill, one of just five US army basic combat training sites

Liberty City

Geronimo!

Will Rogers

Bradley Pitt

Great Salt Plains

The Google Data Center

Minco II Wind Farm

Cushing, the largest crude storage facility

31. Arizona

North America’s largest cacti: The saguaro

The Saguaro National Park, Tucson

Metro Phoenix, a golfers’ paradise

Glen Canyon Dam, on the Colorado River

The Central Arizona Project, sending water from Colorado River to Phoenix

Navajo, Generating Station

Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant

Arizona State Fair

Meteor Crater

The Grand Canyon

Biosphere 2, a supersized three-acre terrarium

Gadsden Purchase

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group

The Boneyard

32. Montana

The Chinese Wall

The Bob, short for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, including the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the Scapegoat Wilderness, and the Great Bear Wilderness

Glacier National Park

Flathead Lake

Montana State Fair

The Big Sky Pro Rodeo Roundup

Custer’s Last Stand

Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to congress

Anaconda

Our Lady of the Rockies

Pompey’s Pillar

33. Minnesota

Minnesota Nice

Lindbergh

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Minneapolis, The flour million capital of the word

Gold Medal Flour

Pillsbury’s Best Flour

General Mills, the company behind Betty Crocker, Cheerios, Yoplait, Haagen-dazs

Mayo Clinic

Greyhound Bus Museum

Bob Dylan, also known as Bob Zimmerman

Prince

34. West Virginia

Seneca Rocks

Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, a part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Point Pleasant

John Danver, Take me home, country roads

The New River Gorge Bridge, the longest single-arch steel bridge in North America

John Henry, the legend of the steel-driving man

The Marcellus Shale Formation

New Vrindaban, America’s Taj Mahal

John Brown

Wheeling, the nail capital city of the world

The Marsh Wheeling Company, Stogies cigar