Visit the Top Landmark or Top City Across the US

Randy Olson posted answers to questions that everyone has pondered at one time or another.  What is the optimal road trip plan to stop at all major US Landmarks.

I did not even know some of these. 

From Randy

Here’s the Google Maps of the route: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

(Note that Google maps itself only allows 10 waypoints to be routed at a time, hence why there’s multiple Maps links.)

Here’s the full list of landmarks in order:

1. Grand Canyon, AZ
2. Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
3. Craters of the Moon National Monument, ID
4. Yellowstone National Park, WY
5. Pikes Peak, CO
6. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
7. The Alamo, TX
8. The Platt Historic District, OK
9. Toltec Mounds, AR
10. Elvis Presley’s Graceland, TN
11. Vicksburg National Military Park, MS
12. French Quarter, New Orleans, LA
13. USS Alabama, AL
14. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL
15. Okefenokee Swamp Park, GA
16. Fort Sumter National Monument, SC
17. Lost World Caverns, WV
18. Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, NC
19. Mount Vernon, VA
20. White House, Washington, DC
21. Colonial Annapolis Historic District, MD
22. New Castle Historic District, Delaware
23. Cape May Historic District, NJ
24. Liberty Bell, PA
25. Statue of Liberty, NY
26. The Mark Twain House & Museum, CT
27. The Breakers, RI
28. USS Constitution, MA
29. Acadia National Park, ME
30. Mount Washington Hotel, NH
31. Shelburne Farms, VT
32. Fox Theater, Detroit, MI
33. Spring Grove Cemetery, OH
34. Mammoth Cave National Park, KY
35. West Baden Springs Hotel, IN
36. Abraham Lincoln’s Home, IL
37. Gateway Arch, MO
38. C. W. Parker Carousel Museum, KS
39. Terrace Hill Governor’s Mansion, IA
40. Taliesin, WI
41. Fort Snelling, MN
42. Ashfall Fossil Bed, NE
43. Mount Rushmore, SD
44. Fort Union Trading Post, ND
45. Glacier National Park, MT
46. Hanford Site, WA
47. Columbia River Highway, OR
48. San Francisco Cable Cars, CA
49. San Andreas Fault, CA
50. Hoover Dam, NV

Then he included a bonus, a road trip stopping at popular U.S. Cities, the city TripAdvisor rated the Best City to Visit in every contiguous U.S. State

Here’s the Google Maps of the route: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Here’s the full list of cities in order:

1. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2. Wichita, Kansas
3. Denver, Colorado
4. Albuquerque, New Mexico
5. Phoenix, Arizona
6. Las Vegas, Nevada
7. San Francisco, California
8. Portland, Oregon
9. Seattle, Washington
10. Boise, Idaho
11. Park City, Utah
12. Jackson, Wyoming
13. Billings, Montana
14. Sioux Falls, South Dakota
15. Omaha, Nebraska
16. Des Moines, Iowa
17. Minneapolis, Minnesota
18. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
19. Chicago, Illinois
20. Indianapolis, Indiana
21. Louisville, Kentucky
22. Columbus, Ohio
23. Detroit, Michigan
24. Cleveland, Ohio
25. Manchester, New Hampshire
26. Portland, Maine
27. Boston, Massachusetts
28. Providence, Rhode Island
29. New Haven, Connecticut
30. New York City, New York
31. Ocean City, New Jersey
32. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
33. Wilmington, Delaware
34. Baltimore, Maryland
35. Washington, D.C.
36. Virginia Beach, Virginia
37. Charlotte, North Carolina
38. Charleston, South Carolina
39. Orlando, Florida
40. Atlanta, Georgia
41. Nashville, Tennessee
42. Birmingham, Alabama
43. Jackson, Mississippi
44. New Orleans, Louisiana
45. Houston, Texas
46. Little Rock, Arkansas
47. Branson, Missouri