All cities of United States of America

The Conch Republic Eclectic and eccentric, wild and warm, blessed with some of Florida's most colorful characters and equally blessed with some of …

Located just 15 minutes north from downtown San Diego, La Jolla’s seven-mile stretch of coastline property is technically within the San Diego city …

Shifting, grinding, sliding. Imperceptible, perpetual movement. Volcanic explosions, glacier formations and ultimately their disappearance, massive am …

In the Ancient Days… Frothy whitecaps dancing on the shimmering sea gave little clue of the events unfolding in the murky depths fathoms be …

Few cities bring to mind such images of sheer excess as Las Vegas. Located in the middle of the arid Mojave Desert, at the southern tip of the state o …

Explorer Hernando de Soto first crossed the Mississippi River into what is now Arkansas in 1541. Since he did not find the fabled gold he was seeking, …

Los Angeles, America’s second largest city after New York, sprawls along the Pacific coast of southern California. Its coastline actually stretches …

There is something magic about an island, even one tucked so closely to the skirts of Massachusetts as Martha's Vineyard. This refuge from the chaotic …

In the Beginning Approximately five million years ago, an undersea eruption created two volcanic mountains, Mauna Kahalawai and Haleakala. Ma …

Set high on the eastern bank of the mighty Mississippi River, in the southwestern corner of Tennessee, Memphis is known the world over as an immensely …

Hardly the brash, drug-ridden crime capital of America that was made famous in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, today’s booming metropolis ha …

Spreading out from the banks of the Mississippi River, in the north-central state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St Paul are colloquially known as the …

Ancient Moloka'i Like its sister islands, Moloka'i is the result of prehistoric volcanic activity. It was pushed to the surface of the Pacifi …

Human habitation of the Monterey Peninsula dates back some 3500 years. The Ohlones to the north and the Chumash to the south led a peaceful, subsisten …

Myrtle Beach‘s history is a story of persisting, starting over and reinventing. Due to the ecological make-up and relative remoteness from early set …

The Grey Lady The name Nantucket derives from an Indian word that means "faraway land" or "land far out to sea." The name applies to the island, t …

The Wappo Indians, original residents of this fertile valley, called it Napa: "Land of Plenty." While from today's perspective, thinking of the acres …

Nashville is the self-styled Music City USA – with Dolly Parton, the Grand Ole Opry, Robert Altman’s Oscar-winning movie Nashville (1975) and the …

Some four hundred years ago, a small tribe of Native Americans, the Quinnipiacks, lived in the area of present day New Haven. They lived along Long Is …

New Orleans is the jewel of the southern US state of Louisiana, sparkling just above the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River where it meets the Gulf …