Category: USA

#travelwithgdp Fact: There’s a series of metal plates along the pier with excerpts from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The Sea and the Hills. In […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: On top of the building is a 245-foot-tall (75 m) clock tower with four clock dials, each 22 feet (6.7 m) […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: San Francisco is the first city that launched cars pulled along by cables running beneath the street.

#travelwithgdp Fact: At Kearny and Washington streets in San Francisco, Domenico Ghirardelli – born in Rapallo, Italy, opens a confectionary shop, Ghirardely & […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: In June 1935 an earthquake struck the region as men worked atop the bridge’s unfinished south tower. According to PBS’ American […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: Several of the bodies in the sculpture were designed to be symbolic. One of the bodies resembles Christ, another is of […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter. Fashioned over […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: The Golden Gate Bridge is the second-most used suicide site/suicide bridge in the world, after the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. After […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: The Golden State is the official state nickname which came to be in 1968, representing the discovery of gold in 1848 […]