US · Curated travel guide
Statue of Liberty, White House, Empire State Building and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about United States and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Colossal sculpture in New York Harbor
A huge neoclassical sculpture of a crowned woman in robes, standing on Liberty Island, in New York Harbor, part of New York City. The people of France gave the copper-covered statue to the United States; the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed it, and Gustave Eiffel built its metal framework.
Photo: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0
Residence and workplace of the US president
The official home and workplace of the US president, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Every U.S. president has lived there since John Adams in 1800, when the capital moved from Philadelphia.
Photo: This image or media was taken or created by Matt H. Wade . To see his entire portfolio, click here . @ thatmattwade…, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York
A supertall Art Deco skyscraper of 102 floors in Midtown South, Manhattan, New York City, designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built in 1930–1931.
Photo: Sam Valadi, Public domain
Steep-sided canyon in Arizona, US
A steep-sided canyon cut by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. It is 277 miles (446 km) long, as much as 18 miles (29 km) wide, and more than a mile deep.
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area
A suspension bridge in California over the Golden Gate, the strait one-mile-wide (1.6 km) between the Pacific and San Francisco Bay. It joins San Francisco, at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula, with Marin County, and carries both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1.
Photo: Rich Niewiroski Jr., CC BY 2.5
Complex of buildings in New York City
The original World Trade Center (WTC): seven buildings in Lower Manhattan's Financial District, New York City, built mainly from 1966 to 1975 and dedicated on April 4, 1973. It was destroyed on September 11, 2001, when two hijacked planes were flown into its towers in a coordinated terrorist attack.
Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 3.0
Deepest oceanic trench on Earth
Lying in the western Pacific, roughly 200 kilometers (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands, the deepest trench in any of Earth's oceans: a crescent some 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) across.
Photo: wallace, CC BY 2.5
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Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense
Built in a hurry during World War II, the building from which the United States Department of Defense is run, standing in Arlington County, Virginia, on the Potomac's far bank from Washington, D.C.
Photo: Touch Of Light, CC BY-SA 4.0
Highest mountain in North America
Officially named Mount McKinley by the federal government, North America's highest peak, rising 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level. Its height above the surrounding plateaus, about 18,000 feet, is one of the greatest on Earth.
Photo: Denali National Park and Preserve, Public domain
Skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois
Formerly, and still commonly, called the Sears Tower, a skyscraper of 110 floors, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) tall, in Chicago's Loop, Illinois. It was designed by Bruce Graham, the architect, and Fazlur Rahman Khan, the engineer, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). When it opened in 1973 no building on Earth was taller, and it held that title for nearly 25 years.
Photo: Chris6d, Public domain
Also called the United States (U.S.) or America, and in full the United States of America (USA), a country mainly in North America: a federal republic of 50 states plus a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states have Canada to their north and Mexico to their south; Alaska, a semi-exclave, lies to the northwest, and the Hawaii archipelago in the Pacific.
Officially The United States of America. Known locally as United States of America.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Statue of Liberty, White House, Empire State Building and Grand Canyon and others. Statue of Liberty is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in United States that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Statue of Liberty. That is not the full count for United States, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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