- Alabam George Washington Carver, who discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts
- Alaska The longest coastline in the U.S., 6,640 miles, greater than that of all other states combined
- Arizona The most telescopes in the world, in Tucson
- Arkansas The only active diamond mine in the U.S.
- California “General Sherman,” a 3,500-year-old tree, and a stand of bristlecone pines 4,000 years old are the world's oldest living things
- Colorado The world's largest silver nugget (1,840 pounds) found in 1894 near Aspen
- Connecticut The first American cookbook, published in Hartford in 1796: American Cookery by Amelia Simmons
- Delaware The first log cabins in North America, built in 1683 by Swedish immigrants
- Florida U.S. spacecraft launchings from Cape Canaveral, formerly Cape Kennedy
- Georgia The Girl Scouts, founded in Savannah by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912
- Hawaii The only royal palace in the U.S. (Iolani)
- Idaho The longest main street in America, 33 miles, in Island Park
- Illinois The tallest building in the U.S., Sears Tower, in Chicago
- Indiana The famous car race: the Indy 500
- Iowa The shortest and steepest railroad in the U.S., Dubuque: 60° incline, 296 feet
- Kansas Helium discovered in 1905 at the University of Kansas
- Kentucky The largest underground cave in the world: 300 miles long, the Mammoth-Flint Cave system
- Louisiana The most crayfish: 98% of the world's crayfish
- Maine The most easterly point in the U.S., West Quoddy Head1
- Maryland The first umbrella factory in the U.S., 1928, Baltimore
- Massachusetts The first World Series, 1903: the Boston “Americans” (became the Red Sox in 1908) vs. the Pittsburg Pirates (Pittsburgh had no “h” between 1890–1911)
- Michigan The Cereal Bowl of America, Battle Creek, produces most cereal in the U.S.
- Minnesota The oldest rock in the world, 3.8 billion years old, found in Minnesota River valley
- Mississippi Coca-Cola, first bottled in 1894 in Vicksburg
- Missouri Mark Twain and some of his characters, such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
- Montana Grasshopper Glacier, named for the grasshoppers that can still be seen frozen in ice
- Nebraska The only roller skating museum in the world, in Lincoln
- Nevada Rare fish such as the Devils Hole pup, found only in Devils Hole, and other rare fish from prehistoric lakes; also the driest state
- New Hampshire Artificial rain, first used near Concord in 1947 to fight a forest fire
- New Jersey The world's first drive-in movie theater, built in 1933 near Camden
- New Mexico “Smokey Bear,” a cub orphaned by fire in 1950, buried in Smokey Bear Historical State Park in 1976
- New York The first presidential inauguration: George Washington took the oath of office in New York City on April 30, 1789.
- North Carolina Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America, on Roanoake Island in 1587
- North Dakota The geographic center of North America, in Pierce County, near Balta
- Ohio The first electric traffic lights, invented and installed in Cleveland in 1914
- Oklahoma The first parking meter, installed in Oklahoma City in 1935
- Oregon The world's smallest park, totaling 452 inches, created in Portland on St. Patrick's Day for leprechauns and snail races
- Pennsylvania The first magazine in America: the American Magazine, published in Philadelphia for 3 months in 1741
- Rhode Island Rhode Island Red chickens, first bred in 1854; the start of poultry as a major American industry
- South Carolina The first tea farm in the U.S., created in 1890 near Summerville
- South Dakota The world's largest natural, indoor warmwater pool, Evans' Plunge in Hot Springs
- Tennessee Graceland, the estate and gravesite of Elvis Presley
- Texas NASA, in Houston, headquarters for all piloted U.S. space projects
- Utah Rainbow Bridge, the largest natural stone bridge in the world, 290 feet high, 275 feet across
- Vermont The largest production of maple syrup in the U.S.
- Virginia The only full-length statue of George Washington, placed in capitol in 1796
- Washington Lunar Rover, the vehicle used by astronauts on the moon; Boeing, in Seattle, makes aircraft and spacecraft
- West Virginia Marbles; most of the country's glass marbles made around Parkersburg
- Wisconsin The typewriter, invented in Milwaukee in 1867
- Wyoming The “Register of the Desert,” a huge granite boulder covering 27 acres with 5,000 early pioneer names carved on it
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