Curated category
Consolidated city-counties
- Jacksonville, FloridaJacksonville, Florida sits on the Atlantic coast of the American Southeast, straddling the St. Johns River roughly 12 miles south of the Georgia state line.
- Nashville, TennesseeNashville sits on the Cumberland River, a city that has worn more identities than almost any other in the American South.
- Louisville, KentuckyLouisville is the only city in the world that can claim four heavyweight boxing champions as native sons. Marvin Hart, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Ellis, and Greg…
- DenverDenver sits at exactly one mile above sea level, a fact so precise that engineers marked the benchmark on the steps of the State Capitol building.
- IndianapolisIndianapolis sits at the center of the American continent, and its official slogan tells you exactly what that has meant: "Crossroads of America." On the…
- New OrleansNew Orleans sits roughly 105 miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico, cradled between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, on ground that is, in many…
- Kansas City, KansasKansas City, Kansas sits at Kaw Point, where the Missouri River and the Kansas River merge into one. That confluence is no accident of geography.
- Macon, GeorgiaMacon, Georgia sits at a precise geographic seam. It is 85 miles southeast of Atlanta and 165 miles northwest of Savannah, and the land beneath it has been…
- PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia sits on a narrow strip of land between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, and in the summer of 1776, the men gathered there made a decision…
- San FranciscoSan Francisco sits at the tip of a narrow peninsula jutting into one of the world's great natural harbors, and for nearly three centuries it has pulled…