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  • My name is Alisha, and today we're gonna be talking about the top 10 tourist attractions

  • in the US.

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  • Disney World's Magic Kingdom

  • Okay, the first place is Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

  • Disney World's Magic Kingdom is in Florida.

  • In a sentence, I'm going to Disney World Magic Kingdom with my family this summer.

  • Disneyland Park

  • The next expression, next expression, the

  • next tourist location is Disneyland Park, or just Disneyland. this is the California,

  • Anaheim, California is home to Disneyland.

  • That's the Disneyland that I grew up going to, actually.

  • Yeah, a very very popular tourist attraction, very popular with families with young children;

  • right across the street from California Adventure.

  • In a sentence, I want to meet Mickey Mouse at Disneyland Park.

  • I went to Disneyland several times with my family when I was growing up.

  • Statue of Liberty

  • The next one is the Statue of Liberty.

  • The Statue of Liberty is in New York City, it's a very very famous tall greenish colored

  • statue donated from France.

  • In a sentence, I visited the Statue of Liberty when I was about 14 years old with my family.

  • Fisherman's Wharf

  • The next popular tourist attraction is Fisherman's Wharf.

  • Fisherman's Wharf is a popular, like, market, fish selling location in San Francisco.

  • So you can go there for fresh seafood, it's really famous for that.

  • You can shop around in that area.

  • In a sentence, we're gonna go to Fisherman's Wharf this weekend, do you want to come?

  • The Golden Gate Bridge

  • The next tourist attraction is the Golden

  • Gate Bridge.

  • Golden Gate Bridge is also in California, in San Francisco, it features in the opening

  • credits to Full House, I think, actually, so it's really really familiar for a lot of

  • people around the world.

  • In a sentence, I drove over the Golden Gate Bridge last weekend.

  • Lake Mead National Recreation Area

  • The next tourist location is Lake Mead.

  • I guess the official title is Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

  • the cool thing is about Lake Mead is that, like, there's, of course, water in the lake,

  • but the size of the lake it's all rock, it's like this red rock red and white rocks that,

  • like, just go up and, like, form cliffs on the sides of the lake.

  • It's really really beautiful, actually.

  • We can water-ski and stuff like that there, hike around, too.

  • Really cool.

  • So in a sentence, I think that Lake Mead is a beautiful tourist attraction.

  • Mountain Rushmore

  • So the next popular tourist location is Mount Rushmore.

  • Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota, and the reason that it's famous is because there are

  • the faces of presidents carved into the mountain, so this is a really popular place to go and

  • take pictures.

  • In a sentence, I went on a trip to Mount Rushmore with my class in junior high school.

  • Niagara Falls

  • The next popular tourist location is Niagara Falls.

  • Niagara Falls is a really really famous tourist location, but it's not a natural waterfall,

  • it's actually a dam.

  • So Niagara Falls is in upstate New York, and yeah, it's really popular just because it's

  • huge, it's like a huge waterfall.

  • People can, like, take rafting trips down this thing, I think.

  • So in a sentence, I have never been to Niagara Falls.

  • True.

  • Times Square

  • The next place is very very famous, Times Square.

  • Times Square is like one of the central tourist locations in New York City.

  • It's that place that you see in all the movies where there are all the billboards and signs

  • and the bright lights, it's like that quintessential; quintessential means like the heart of something,

  • or like the main example of something, that's quintessential.

  • So Times Square is like the quintessential, like, tourist place in New York City.

  • In a sentence, the lights in Times Square are so bright it seems like day even at night.

  • Pikes Place Market

  • The next place is Pikes Place Market, this

  • is a really famous place in Seattle, in Seattle, Washington.

  • Pikes Place Market, similar to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, is a place where you

  • can buy a lot of fresh fish.

  • There's also a really really famous thing they do there where, like, the sellers will

  • throw fish like over customers like as people buy them.

  • Make sure you eat some fresh fish at Pikes Place Market.

  • You can see fish sellers throwing fish to each other at Pikes Place Market.

  • Alright! So those are 10 tourist attractions in America.

  • Have you been, or do you know of any other big tourist attractions in America?

  • Let us know in a comment.

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