The Great Smoky Mountain National Park-US
also passes through the center of the park. The park was chartered by the United States Congress in 1934 and officially dedicated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. It encompasses 522,419 acres (816.28 sq mi; 2,114.15 km2), making it one of the largest protected areas in the eastern United States. The main park entrances [...]
Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Strip the Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, adjacent to, but outside the city limits of Las Vegas proper. The Strip lies within the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester. Most of the Strip has been designated an All-American Road. Many [...]
National Park in Downtown Washington
National Mall The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Mall, which is part of its National Mall and Memorial Parks unit.The term National Mall commonly includes areas that are officially part of West Potomac Park and [...]
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Faneuil Hall Faneuil Hall ( /’fænj?l/ or /’fæn?l/; previously /’f?n?l/), located near the waterfront and today’s Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain, and is now part of [...]
Times Square New York
History Times Square At the end of the 19th century, New York City had expanded up to 42nd street and the area was becoming the center of the city’s social scene. In 1904, the New York Times built the Times Tower on 43rd street just off Broadway to replace the premises in Downtown. The square [...]
Grand Canyon National Park, Colorado River
Nearly five million people see the 1 mile deep (1.6 km) Grand Canyon each year. Most of them see it from their car at overlooks along the South Rim (this includes Grand Canyon Village, Hermits Rest, and Desert View). The South Rim is the most accessible part of the park and is open all year. [...]
