Historic sites
9/11 Memorial and Museum, New York
Manhattan, New York
Two large reflecting pools set in the footprints of the Twin Towers, with the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks of 2001 and 1993…
Historic sites in United States of America
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Alcatraz Island
San Francisco, California
A former federal prison on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, which held Al Capone and others until 1963.
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French Quarter, New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest neighbourhood of New Orleans, with Spanish and French colonial buildings with iron balconies, Jackson Square and St Louis Cathedral, and l…
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National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Washington D.C., District of Columbia
A long park between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, lined with monuments and the free museums of the Smithsonian Institution.
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USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor
‘Aiea, Hawaii
The white memorial straddles the sunken battleship USS Arizona, which was sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
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Graceland, Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
The home of Elvis Presley, where he lived from 1957 until his death in 1977, preserved with its Jungle Room, his cars, planes, costumes and gold reco…
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Mesa Verde National Park
Colorado
Cliff dwellings built by Ancestral Puebloan people in the 1200s under overhanging rock in canyons in south-western Colorado, a UNESCO World Heritage …