All cities of United States of America

Before the silicon chip, before Dionne Warwick ("Do You Know the Way to San Jose?", and well before the Spanish gave it a name, San Jose was home to s …

Although the history of Santa Fe is generally well documented, much prior to Spanish settlement and conquest has been overlooked by scholars. Evidence …

Savannah owes much of her character, style, and in fact her very existence to a British general and Member of Parliament named James Edward Oglethorpe …

Scottsdale is known locally as "The West's Most Western Town," due to the cultural history of the Old West that still permeates the area. The historic …

Founded in 1869, the ‘Emerald City’ is a youthful metropolis in every respect, experiencing its first boom in the late 1890s, as the last US depar …

Sedona is a tourist haven, offering panoramic views like few other locations. At an elevation of 4,500 feet, the average year-round temperature is abo …

St. Louis stood as a gateway to the west long before the famed St. Louis Arch was erected, before Six Flags flew over St. Louis and before Anheuser-Bu …

In 1527, Spanish explorer Panfilo de Narvaez set off with a fleet of four galleons in search of that coveted New World treasure—gold. His plans fail …

In 1698, Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, on his way north from what is now Mexico to explore possible sites for building new missions, came acro …

The word "Oklahoma" means "land of the Red People" in the language of the Choctaw Indian, one of the five tribes that called this state home. This Nat …

It is hard to believe, but the land on which Washington, DC’s elegant National Mall and its stately buildings stand was once a marshy swamp. George …

The incredible beauty of Yosemite began about 130 million years ago when a 400-mile fault line, along what is now the eastern edge of the Sierras, bro …