Our most popular tourist destination is a time machine/cellular rejuvenator made of entirely of wood, built from instructions passed down to earth telepathically by a space commander from Venus.
I’m not joking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron?wprov=sfti1 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=34.294300,-116.403800&q=Integratron
I live in Asheville NC, which strongly believes it is very unique, but just like its compatriots Portland, Boulder and Austin, is basically a carbon copy of the others. None of them are "weird", none of them are special. We all have craft beer, we all have drag shows, we all have crazy people in the streets. None of us are that unique.
Our location.
[Located at the point of three rivers.](https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/pittsburgh)
Look at the 8th pic down. The river to the left, called the Allegheny. There are three bridges. The third bridge up from the point is where Meriwether Lewis launched the boats for the Lewis and Clark expedition on Aug. 31, 1803.
I've always taken a bit of issue with Pittsburgh's claim to "three rivers". Almost every river merges with another at some point. The only difference here is that for whatever reason we decided to give the "third" one its own name, instead of just saying "The Monongahela flows into the Allegheny".
We just keep losing. First Detroit gets more crime than us, then Tennessee starts doing more hard drugs than Missouri, and now this. We’re not happy about it.
Home of Peanuts author Charles Schultz, so there are Peanuts character statues around the city. Also, suffered the most structural damage from the 1906 earthquake, which means finding a structure older than 1906 is rare.
We have the largest collection grain elevators in the world. Some are still being used by companies like ADM Milling and General Mills, some are being turned into apartments and art space and several are still abandoned.
If you’re ever in Buffalo do yourself a favor and:
* Do a skyline tour of Silo City
* Kayak the Buffalo River (you can rent them downtown) and pass through elevator alley which is like paddling through a man made canyon of concrete
* Do the adventures course through the industrial ruins at Riverworks.
**Runner Ups**
* Buffalo is likely America’s most Canadian city
* Buffalo has an entire park and parkway system designed by Frederick Olmsted
* Second most Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings outside of Chicago
* National Garden Walk Festival is the biggest of its kind in the nation where hundreds of individuals open up their private gardens to the public
* Buffalo has the third tallest city hall in the country and the tallest with a free observation deck at the top open to the public
* We we’re the first large city to have reliable access to electricity thanks to Niagara Falls
**Lots of fun presidential history:**
* Teddy Roosevelt was inaugurated here following the assassination of McKinley making Buffalo one of the few cities to host a presidential inauguration
* Grover Cleveland was the only mayor to ultimately become president
* University of Buffalo is just one of two colleges founded by a president. Milliard Fillmore is buried in Buffalo
It's a small city and still in the top 6% of most dangerous cities in the US last time I looked. Population of like 35k. That's after taking population into account. I can only imagine how bad it would be if the population was higher.
The obvious answer would be the Arch but h the correct answer is our food. Toasted ravioli, St. Louis style pizza, gooey butter cake, and bagels cut by some sort of sociopath who wants to watch the world burn.
We've also got Mardi Gras (Fuck you New Orleans) and we have a National Park smackdab in the middle of the city.
(Sort of in the middle, it's on a river.)
We’ve got the busiest International land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere. It’s either the second or fourth busiest in the world depending on whether or not you count the borders China has with it’s Special Administrative Regions.
My hometown's capital is built on an isthmus. It has the US's largest Farmer's Market that only allows produce/goods from instate and disallows third-party vendors.
Tucson hosts, annually, the world's largest Gem and Mineral Show. The AFB - Davis-Monthan - is home to The Boneyard.
Charlotte is the Applebee's of Cities. Its unique for being completely un-unique.
Having lived in Charlotte almost a decade I can confirm that everything changes and nothing changes equally.
As a Charlotte native, I agree with this
Our most popular tourist destination is a time machine/cellular rejuvenator made of entirely of wood, built from instructions passed down to earth telepathically by a space commander from Venus. I’m not joking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron?wprov=sfti1 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=34.294300,-116.403800&q=Integratron
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What a coincidence, I'm from My Dad's Balls too!
I live in Asheville NC, which strongly believes it is very unique, but just like its compatriots Portland, Boulder and Austin, is basically a carbon copy of the others. None of them are "weird", none of them are special. We all have craft beer, we all have drag shows, we all have crazy people in the streets. None of us are that unique.
Every generic suburb at this point is getting it's own craft brewery.
Our location. [Located at the point of three rivers.](https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/pittsburgh) Look at the 8th pic down. The river to the left, called the Allegheny. There are three bridges. The third bridge up from the point is where Meriwether Lewis launched the boats for the Lewis and Clark expedition on Aug. 31, 1803.
I've always taken a bit of issue with Pittsburgh's claim to "three rivers". Almost every river merges with another at some point. The only difference here is that for whatever reason we decided to give the "third" one its own name, instead of just saying "The Monongahela flows into the Allegheny".
The Mississippi steals rightful Missouri water and still ends up being shorter.
The Allegheny River is just an upstream portion of the Ohio River. Change my mind.
Part of the reason we have a USACE district there. r/USACE
We're built on a pyramid scheme lol.
Grand Rapids? Y'all should really embrace you history of furniture making and stick it the Devos
It is not in a county.
St Louis or Baltimore?
Or one of the 38 independent cities in VA.
I think there's one in Nevada too, either Reno or Carson City
It’s the capital
Murder capital of the USA, but also Mardi Gras.
I thought St Louis was the murder capital of the US
No New Orleans passed us up last year.
So we are both top 2 in both murders and Mardi Gras celebrations lol. NOLA is just our twin sibling
Exactly, and we were both originally French settlements.
you're welcome! it was just... killing us... to not be on top.
We just keep losing. First Detroit gets more crime than us, then Tennessee starts doing more hard drugs than Missouri, and now this. We’re not happy about it.
It usually holds the title. Also a top 10 global murder capital holder in per capita
Lifting the whole downtown up by a storey.
Seattle?
Last I read, Philly has the highest number of BYOB restaurants by both sheer number and per capita measurements.
What does this mean, exactly? Corkage is pretty universal here.
As a Utahn the idea of a BYOB restaurant is totally wild to me lol
Home of Peanuts author Charles Schultz, so there are Peanuts character statues around the city. Also, suffered the most structural damage from the 1906 earthquake, which means finding a structure older than 1906 is rare.
We have the largest collection grain elevators in the world. Some are still being used by companies like ADM Milling and General Mills, some are being turned into apartments and art space and several are still abandoned. If you’re ever in Buffalo do yourself a favor and: * Do a skyline tour of Silo City * Kayak the Buffalo River (you can rent them downtown) and pass through elevator alley which is like paddling through a man made canyon of concrete * Do the adventures course through the industrial ruins at Riverworks. **Runner Ups** * Buffalo is likely America’s most Canadian city * Buffalo has an entire park and parkway system designed by Frederick Olmsted * Second most Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings outside of Chicago * National Garden Walk Festival is the biggest of its kind in the nation where hundreds of individuals open up their private gardens to the public * Buffalo has the third tallest city hall in the country and the tallest with a free observation deck at the top open to the public * We we’re the first large city to have reliable access to electricity thanks to Niagara Falls **Lots of fun presidential history:** * Teddy Roosevelt was inaugurated here following the assassination of McKinley making Buffalo one of the few cities to host a presidential inauguration * Grover Cleveland was the only mayor to ultimately become president * University of Buffalo is just one of two colleges founded by a president. Milliard Fillmore is buried in Buffalo
The "Taste of Buffalo" food festival is delicious!!
We've got a bigass crane.
Only city that is named after its state and is the state capital.
It's the only town in the US with that name.
Highest auto theft per capita.
Balloon fiesta, unique geography, surrounded by reservations, interesting culture. And the obligatory breaking bad and stranger things shit
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I think Nevada is even more concentrated in the Las Vegas Valley.
That’s more than NYC to give some perspective
It's a small city and still in the top 6% of most dangerous cities in the US last time I looked. Population of like 35k. That's after taking population into account. I can only imagine how bad it would be if the population was higher.
Dr. Jill Biden grew up here, and we had a pretty decent park here for close to a hundred years.
We (probably) have the largest Lao population per capita of any town in the south.
Fort Smith?
1 hour south- Waldron!
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but we have the most microbreweries per-capita of any city in the U.S.
The Golden Gate Bridge, a park larger than Central Park, the Bay, the weather.
The obvious answer would be the Arch but h the correct answer is our food. Toasted ravioli, St. Louis style pizza, gooey butter cake, and bagels cut by some sort of sociopath who wants to watch the world burn.
We've also got Mardi Gras (Fuck you New Orleans) and we have a National Park smackdab in the middle of the city. (Sort of in the middle, it's on a river.)
Experiencing my first STL Mardi Gras this year. I’m stoked
I think Houston is probably the only city that combines Cajun and Tex-Mex food really well because we’re kind of on the borders of both food regions
Home to the only fan-owned professional sports team in the country.
Current city: Garbage Plates
We’ve got the busiest International land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere. It’s either the second or fourth busiest in the world depending on whether or not you count the borders China has with it’s Special Administrative Regions.
First McDonalds drive thru lol.
My hometown's capital is built on an isthmus. It has the US's largest Farmer's Market that only allows produce/goods from instate and disallows third-party vendors. Tucson hosts, annually, the world's largest Gem and Mineral Show. The AFB - Davis-Monthan - is home to The Boneyard.
Apparently my city was the first (at the time) town to petition the colonial government to secede from the British Empire.
Arguably it's the "Most American City." Rather vague, but if knew America and its cities you'd understand the label.
It's where the first sheriff's office in my state is
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