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This page provides a list of the main things to see in USA. "++" identifies the top attractions.
My pictures of the USA
Photos of these cities and parks
  • New Hampshire/ Portsmouth: Moffatt-Ladd House (1764), Macphaesdris-Warner House (1723), Wentworth-Gardner House (1760)
  • New York state: Buffalo (Lloyd Wright's Larking Building, Saarinen's Klainhaus Music Hall), Devil's Path in Catskills
  • Rhode Island/ Newport: Brick Market (1762), Touro Synagogue (1763), Redwood Library (1748), Breakers (1895), Watts Sherman House (1876), Belluschi's Portsmouth Abbey Chapel (1961)
  • Providence, Rhode Island: Thomas Teft's Union Station (1848)
  • Connecticut/ New Haven: Kahn's Yale Art Gallery Addition (1953) at 1111 Chapel, Kahn's Yale Center for British Art (1977), Art and Architecture Building (1963) at 180 York, Ingalls Hockey Rink (1958) at 73 Sachem, Kline Biology Tower (1966) at 210 Whitney, Yale Univ, Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building (1963), Eero Saarinen's Stiles & Morse College (1962), Rock Ledge estate in Rowayton (former headquarters of Remington Rand)
  • Washington: White House, Capitol, Smithsonian, Union Station, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Cathedral, Ron Mueck's "Big Man" (2000) at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • Baltimore: Basilica (1821), Mount Clare, Homewood
  • Philadelphia: Independence Hall, Second Bank (1824) at 420 Chestnut, Chirst Church (1727) at 2nd St & Market, Academy of Arts at Broad & Cherry, City Hall at Market & Broad, Savings Fund Society at Market & 12th, Fairmont Waterworks in Fairmount Park, Kahn's Newman Richards Medical Research Building (1964) on Hamilton Walk, Germantown (Green Tree Tavern, Wyck, Cliveden), William Strickland's Merchants Exchange (1834), Kahn's Richards Medical Labs (1962)
  • Falling Water, Pennsylvania: Frank Lloyd Wright's house (1937)
  • Columbia, Pennsylvania: National Watch & Clock Museum
  • Alabama/ Mobile: Presbyterian Church on Government St, Barton Academy, Old City Hospital on Broad & St Anthony
  • Atlanta: 14th Ave & Peachtree, 1180 Peachtree by John Heagy, Peachtree & North Ave, Peachtree & Allen Jr, Peachtree & McGill Ave, Peachtree & North Ave, Equitable, Peachtree & Dobbs, GP, Peachtree & Gilmer, Coca Cola , Depot, State Capitol, City Hall, Courthouse, Westin Hotel, Dome, Peachtree & North Ave, Flatiron Building (1895) , Nations Bank (1901)
  • New Orleans: Ursuline Convent at 1114 Chartres, US Mint at 400 Esplanade, Madame John's Legacy at 632 Dumaine, US Custom House at 423 Canal, Old City Hall at 545 St Charles, San Francisco plantation house (outside city), Houmas House (outside city), Oak Alley (outside city), Madewood (outside city),
  • Mississippi/ Natchez: Rosalie, Stanton Hall, Dunleith, Auburn, Melrose, D'Evereux (outside city), Longwood (outside city),
  • South Carolina/ Charleston: Fireproof Building, St Mark's, Nathaniel Russell House, Miles Brewton House, Heyward-Washington House, St Philip's, Manigault House, Drayton Hall (outside city)
  • Tennessee/ Nashville: Parthenon, State Capitol, Belle Meade on 5025 Harting, Grand Ole Opry, Opera House, Gaylord Center, Ryman Auditorium, Old Presbyterian Church, Bicentennial Plaza, Custom House, Union Station, Frist Center for the Visual Arts,
  • Tennessee/ Pigeon Forge: Wonderworks
  • Kentucky/ Louisville: Humana Headquarters (1982)
  • Arkansas: Moshe Safdie's Crystal Bridges Museum (2011) in Bentonville
  • Virginia/ Williamsburg: Capitol, Governor's Palace, Wren Building, Carter's Grove, Rosewell (outside city)
  • Indianapolis: College Life Insurance Building (3500 Depauw Blvd)
  • Minneapolis: IDS at Marquelle Ave & 7th, Walker Art Center at 725 Vineland, State Capitol (in St Paul), St John's University Church (in St John's University, outside city), Federal Reserve Bank (1974), Univ of Minnesota's James Ford Bell Library (wall maps of Ricci and of Waldseemuller), Frederick Weisman Art Museum
  • Columbus, Ohio: State Capitol (1861)
  • Newark, Ohio: Basket Building
  • Detroit, Michigan: Diego Rivera's murale at Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Kansas City: ++Nelson Gallery, Gateway Arch, Wainwright Building at 709 Chestnut, Old St Louis Post Office on Olive & 8th, Union Station on Market & 18th, Shaw's Garden (including Climatron, +Public Library, Moshe Safdie's Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
  • St Louis: Eero Saarinen's Jefferson Memorial Arch (1967)
  • Cleveland: Art Museum, First Congressional Church,
  • South Dakota: Mount Rushmore
  • Colorado/ Denver: Brown Palace Hotel, Johns Manville Headquarters, Red Rocks Amphitheater
  • Colorado/ Denver: Danile Libeskind's Hamilton Building of the Museum of Art
  • Colorado/ Mesa Verde
  • Colorado/ Colorado Springs: +Air Force Academy Chapel
  • Colorado: Royal Gorge Bridge, the highest suspension bridge in the USA
  • New Mexico: Taos Pueblo near Santa Fe (13th c), Mission Church of San Francisco de Asis near Santa Fe, Aztec Ruins National Monument (13th c) near Albuquerque, Pueblo Bonito (13th c) near Albuquerque, Mission Church of San Estevan del Rey near Albuquerque,
  • Las Vegas: Gehry's Cleveland Clinic (Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health)
  • Oregon/ Portland: Equitable Building (421 S. West 6th St)
  • Seattle: Needle, underground tour, +Central Library
  • Tacoma: Blown Glass Museum
Photos

Things that annoyed me in the USA:

  • Colossal amount of plastic and colossal waste in general
  • Air-conditioned buildings (they make you freeze even in summer)
  • Prices are never the real price (they never include "taxes")
  • Waiters are hysterical about cleaning up your table even before you finished eating
  • Lots of homeless people, more than in any other Western country
  • Obesity
  • People do not wash their hands before eating and often suck their fingers when finished eating (when you use the utensils at an all-you-can-eat buffet, those utensils have been used by countless people who did not wash their hands), a puzzling behavior by people who are obsessed with deodorants and showers and flossing
  • People are allowed to own and carry guns
  • The USA is the only country left on the planet that still uses the ancient Roman imperial system for measurements (miles, feet, gallons) instead of the metric system
  • The USA writes the date as month/day/year instead of day/month/year
  • The USA had to change even the name for football, which is called "soccer"
  • Anywhere in the USA avoid taxi drivers. They can be arrogant, aggressive, demand a tip, often cheat customers, and are prone to accidents.
  • For mysterious reasons people cannot write the number "9". They write it with a straight vertical line, despite the fact that all their computer and phone keyboards show the correct vertical curve.
  • Huge gas-sucking cars (their "compact" is everybody else's "midsize") and very cheap gasoline, a combination which results in colossal waste of gasoline
  • The USA has very few trains and they are terribly slow and antiquated. This forces the traveler to continuously use airports with all the inconvenience (limited and sometimes lost luggage, security checks, laborious boarding and disembarking, can't bring your own drinks, limited use of electronic devices, bumpy rides, sardine-like seats, impossible workspace, store things away for take off and landing, and, last but not least, a much higher chance of dying) and obsoelence (airports are usually very far from your destination and transportation to town is expensive and/or slow). The planes of US airlines are also quite primitive by international standards.
  • Live road conditions
  • National park service