Blue ribbon, Union Fair (Union, Maine)
Union Fair (Union, Maine)
Coney Island (New York City)
St. Michael’s Fair (Levittown, Pennsylvania)
Mummers Parade “after parade” on 2nd Street (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Philly cheesesteaks (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Gettysburg National Military Park (Pennsylvania)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Desegregation showdown in September 1957: President Dwight Eisenhower sent U.S. Army troops to escort nine African-American students into previously all-white Little Rock Central High School.
Balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The building is now the National Civil Rights Museum.
Legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where the “Million Dollar Quartet” of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins (pictured left) recorded their seminal early hits in the mid-1950s.
Stax Records (Memphis, Tennessee)
Poolroom at Graceland, Elvis Presley’s mansion (Memphis, Tennessee)
The apocryphal crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil in exchange for becoming a great guitar player and, ultimately, the most famous Delta bluesman.
Bourbon Street in New Orleans after the Saints won the NFC championship on January 24, 2010.
Mississippi River headwaters (Itasca State Park, Minnesota)
Milk Bottle Grocery (Oklahoma City)
Mt. Rushmore
John and Chance High Hawk in Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Viva Las Vegas
Winslow, Arizona
English, Spanish and Oʼodham, the language of the Tohono O'odham Nation (Ajo, Arizona)
Salvation Mountain (Niland, California)
California redwoods
Corner of Haight and Ashbury streets (San Francisco, California)
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, California)
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