Whats a cool or interesting area of your state ?

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1. The Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, a piece of Appalachia.

2. The Eastern Sierra is interesting and different. Basically anything along 395. There are desert and mountain landscapes in that area. Look at pictures of the mountains in the autumn for beautiful leaves, mostly aspen trees.

3. For the purposes of your game, take a lap around Mackinac Island.

4. You should visit the one true Stonehenge on street view in Maryhill, WA!

5. The Navajo nation has a lot of beautiful outdoor activities.

6. you could look at the ridiculously expensive homes in Lake Geneva ([start with this $36 million home](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pTakZF9S4qMPPKTy7)) or you could go check out Door County, the curvy highway is a classic postcard photo spot, might be fun to see on Google Maps.

   do you have a Canadian suggestion for Americans to check out?

7. Acadia, it’s pretty much the default “holy fuck that’s beautiful” for the state.

   But if you are trawling street view try out Portland, ME and Portsmouth, NH. I don’t know what appears on Google maps but Kittery right across from Portsmouth has the naval shipyard and it’s pretty cool to see. The whole Portsmouth/Kittery port out to the ocean is pretty dang cool if you can find pics from the ocean and not the road.

8. St Augustine.. The oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. Although it has its tourists, it doesn’t seem to be on the list for most tourists.

9. Leavenworth, WA is a little Bavarian style town in the middle of the mountains.

10. Dinosaur National Monument in the northwest corner of Colorado.

11. There are several towns in Vermont that form the basis for the prototypical “Small town Christmas” movies, to the point that they almost don’t look real. Stowe is the main example but they’re all over the place. Perfectly normal little towns that look like a movie set.

12. At opposite ends, there’s the Cape and the Berkshires, each with their own charm. Don’t miss the cultural attractions in the Berkshires, as well as the nature.

13. Coös County

    -Bigger than Rhode Island

    -Beautiful, but pretty harsh weather

    -Under 30K people

    -What makes it really interesting tho is that around 1 in 5 resident speak French at home and the main “city” in the county is Berlin where around 65% of its residents can speak French

14. Historic Triangle

15. I dock my boat up at Port Clinton, Ohio. It has a charming main drag.

16. Cumberland Island, Amicalola Falls, Tallulah Gorge, Providence Canyon.

17. Letchworth Park in New York State is a 600 ft deep gorge that has three big waterfalls and many smaller ones along it’s 17 mile length. It’s most popular, and maybe the most beautiful, in the fall, but it’s still a park, and so not developed commercially and there are always places you can go there where you seem to have the place to yourself.

18. The Lake Erie islands. There is no street view, but you can drop the guy on a lot of little picture spots. Most notably, Kelleys Island, South Bass Island, and Middle Bass Island.

19. Lake Erie Islands

20. The Hocking Hills of Ohio is a lovely gem. Not at all what one would expect from Ohio.

21. Jim Thorpe, PA on the edge of the Poconos and Anthracite Coal Region.

    I live there and yes, it’s touristy, it’s historic, and it’s scenic.

    But living here, I can tell you that Carbon County is also weird, lol

22. Portsmouth, NH.

23. Bisbee, AZ (not TN obviously!) Is an old copper mining town that is now an artist/hippy enclave. The houses are built on the slope of a mountain and a lot are only accessible through long sets of stairs built into the mountains.

24. Indiana Dunes National Park up in the northwest corner of Indiana, right on Lake Michigan. One of the few national parks in the Midwest actually. It’s pretty cool and I highly recommend taking a trip there sometime!

    Hoosier National Forest is also beautiful in the fall and a wonderful hiking place, if a bit hilly.

25. I liked the Ausable Chasm when I visited it back in 2015

26. I’ve always loved Stone Mountain State Park in NC. Really good hiking trails with breathtaking mountain and waterfall views.

27. People on here throwing out random suggestions… OP wants Google Maps Street View.

    Here’s a good one for Michigan (besides the aforementioned Mackinac Island): Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

    You have the ghost town (turned into some park buildings) of Glen Haven where the road ends at a historic fish cannery (you can Street View right through the parking lot):

    [https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8989502,-86.0301475,3a,75y,55.77h,87.34t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sugLmWWiA9NRDDFfsF3lBlA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DugLmWWiA9NRDDFfsF3lBlA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D158.04889%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8989502,-86.0301475,3a,75y,55.77h,87.34t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sugLmWWiA9NRDDFfsF3lBlA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DugLmWWiA9NRDDFfsF3lBlA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D158.04889%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)

    Same park, you have the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive that Google dutifully did a full street view drive of. [https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8526763,-86.0366496,3a,75y,259.11h,107.4t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOAxaLaQHu3dhcorCFOrj00_HSepmqdhXXADRTp!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOAxaLaQHu3dhcorCFOrj00_HSepmqdhXXADRTp%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-15.853291-ya249.09515-ro-3.468095-fo100!7i5504!8i2752?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8526763,-86.0366496,3a,75y,259.11h,107.4t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOAxaLaQHu3dhcorCFOrj00_HSepmqdhXXADRTp!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOAxaLaQHu3dhcorCFOrj00_HSepmqdhXXADRTp%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-15.853291-ya249.09515-ro-3.468095-fo100!7i5504!8i2752?entry=ttu)

28. The people that live on Tangier Island, Virginia, an isolated island in the Chesapeake Bay, still speak with an accent that resembles what it was like back in the 1600-1700s.

29. Rockland Maine would be fun to drive around in street view.

30. Vist Ringing Rocks outside Butte. You climb on a pile of rocks and hit them with a hammer. They ring.

31. Well I’m in NV so obviously Vegas is…Vegas. But there are so many more beautiful things here.

    Palisade, Elko County – ghost town. It is just a cool little spot.

    Metropolis, Elko County – another ghost town. Fun to explore!

    Thunder Mountain, Imlay – impossible to explain…a man made marvel

    Bishops Castle, Colorado – reminds me of Thunder Mountain

    Beatty, NV – can be amusing. Wild donkeys roaming town.

32. downtown Charleston is always fun.

33. In my state I have been to Noccalula falls and it is beautiful with an interesting story.

34. Missouri here.

    If you like nature then you gotta checkout the Lake of the Ozarks and the Ozark Mountains.

    If you’re not super into nature well Kansas City is cool. It has

    – The Power and Light district

    – The Country Club Plaza

    – Nelson Atkins art museum

    – National WW1 museum

    – Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

    – Worlds of Fun

    – Many great bbq places such as Arthur Bryant’s, Joe’s BBQ and Jackstack

    Kansas City has much more than most people would assume.

    Also checkout St. Louis. Don’t live in St. Louis so can’t recommend as much but it’s also cool.

35. New Castle, Delaware! Lots of Revolutionary War stuff happened there, plus it’s the site of the boat railroad! (A railroad used to pick up boats from the Delaware River and drop them off in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland). There’s lots to do in the general area as well. Mt. Cuba, Winterthur and Longwood Gardens.

36. Not a state, but check out the Lincoln Cottage in DC.

37. I’ve never been, but I’ve looked at Street View of some of those cute little towns in Alaska and it’s really beautiful up there.

38. The Manzano mountains just southeast of Albuquerque have some surprisingly interesting stuff going on. There are a bunch of little villages tucked away back there from the Spanish and Mexican period, one of which is Chilili. There they have their own flags and prominent signs declaring themselves sovereign, declaring no land sales, and no pictures. Here’s the street view of it lol: [streetview](http://9903 NM-337
    https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZTFUo5efuZ6bx8ka6).

    There’s also the [Salinas Pueblo Missions](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Views_of_Gran_Quivira_at_Salinas_Pueblos_Mission_National_Monument%2C_New_Mexico_%28d8b8a6eb-3f76-4eaa-b1b6-ea290fb964f8%29.jpg) National Monument back there and the [4th of July Campground](https://img-aws.ehowcdn.com/1280x/www.onlyinyourstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/extra_large_96388ec4e72030810e3a23290c04641a.jpg) which is beautiful in the fall.

39. In Massachusetts, you can go to the oldest active baseball stadium in the world. Sure it has some modern amenities but it’s the closest thing to what a baseball game was back in the olden days

40. This isn’t my state but I always like to go to Bourbon Street in New Orleans to see what kinda things I can see down there on street view.

41. North Shore of Minnesota

42. In California –

    [Old Sacramento](https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5821223,-121.504786,3a,75y,99.9h,93.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sw7tEPHBYdX6xDwGheciTUw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) has a western movie vibe.

    [Mojave](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7778094,-115.4496718,3a,75y,73.25h,87.3t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVK2HW5ToMkCzAQLbilcI5w!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DVK2HW5ToMkCzAQLbilcI5w%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D336.584%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) gives you the perfect Nowhere feeling.

43. The [Pine Barrens](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpinelandsalliance.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F11%2FN0B1209-Cedar-Canyon-3000-ppi-web-e1541169459289.jpg&tbnid=kZUG7e6VFXttlM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpinelandsalliance.org%2Flearn-about-the-pinelands%2Fpinelands-overview%2F&docid=MPtL7mrC52b3sM&w=1600&h=942&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3)

44. The coastal Oregon tide pools are really cool!