"Saving Grace" of Each State

[RINO Tom]

The topic title is vague, I guess, but what I am asking is ... what is the main city/attraction/activity that would draw you to each state in the union, hypothetically?  This is inspired by the topic that asked us to rank all of the states.  For example, you might not usually want to visit South Dakota, but maybe Mount Rushmore would be worth a trip if time and money allowed and you were already in the region?  Feel free to keep it vague, as I will likely be forced to put something like "Nature" for states I'm fairly ignorant about, haha.  Here are mine:

AL: Gulf Shores (with a stop at Lulu's for a happy hour beer)
AK: Denali National Park
AZ: Grand Canyon
AR: Hot Springs National Park
CA: Wine Country
CO: Denver (LOT of friends)
CT: New Haven??
DE: One of the beaches...
FL: The Keys
GA: Savannah
HI: Kona Brewing Co., actual bucket list item
ID: Shoshone Falls
IL: [Live here] ... of a place I haven't been, the Shawnee National Forest in Southern IL
IN: Indianapolis (family)
IA: [Former residence ... of a place I haven't been, Pella in Central IA
KS: Allen Fieldhouse for a game (Lawrence), especially if by some small chance Illinois ever played there
KY: Kentucky Derby
LA: New Orleans
ME: Acadia National Park
MD: US Naval Academy?
MA: Boston
MI: Founders Brewing Co.
MN: Minneapolis
MS: Ole Miss tailgate (The Grove)
MO: Kansas City
MT: Glacier National Park
NE: College World Series (Omaha)
NV: Las Vegas
NH: Mount Washington?
NJ: Maybe Princeton, actually?
NM: Carlsbad Caverns?
NY: New York City
NC: Outer Banks
ND: Badlands??
OH: Ohio Stadium (The Shoe) for a game ... preferably in a year Illinois is competitive!
OK: I guess Oklahoma City ... to get drunk somewhere?
OR: Portland
PA: Gettysburg
RI: A Gilded Age mansion?  Ignorant to which...
SC: Charleston
SD: Mount Rushmore
TN: Smokey Mountains
TX: Austin
UT: Zion National Park
VT: Stowe
VA: Richmond
WA: Seattle
WV: The Appalachian Trail
WI: Door County ... of a place I haven't been, New Glarus Brewing
WY: Yellowstone National Park

Makes me realize how little of the US I have really experienced.  Curious to see if others have cool hot spots in their lists!

[TDAS04]

AL: Gulf Shores
AK: Kenai Fjords NP
AZ: Grand Canyon
AR: Eureka Springs
CA: Eureka (or the North Coast in general)
CO: Rocky Mountain NP (so many good places, hard to pick one)
CT: Litchfield Hills
DE: Rehoboth Beach?
FL: St. Augustine
GA: Savannah
HI: Hilo or somewhere on the Big Island
ID: Somewhere in the northern panhandle
IL: Downtown Chicago
IN: Bloomington
IA: Iowa City
KS: Lawrence?
KY: Lexington and surrounding countryside
LA: New Orleans
ME: Portland
MD: Annapolis
MA: Boston
MI: Somewhere in the UP
MN: Duluth
MS: Oxford?
MO: KC
MT: Glacier NP
NE: Omaha (especially the zoo)
NV: Lake Tahoe
NH: Mt. Washington
NJ: Somewhere on the shore?
NM: Santa Fe
NY: Manhattan
NC: Asheville
ND: Fargo
OH: Columbus?
OK: Tulsa? (heard it’s more of a “real city” than OKC)
OR: Portland
PA: Pittsburgh
RI: Newport
SC: Charleston
SD: Custer State Park (was very beautiful when I was there)
TN: Smokey Mountains
TX: Austin
UT: Zion NP
VT: Stowe
VA: Shenandoah NP
WA: Olympic NP
WV: Morgantown?
WI: Madison
WY: Yellowstone NP

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Not doing every state out of laziness, just the saving graces of ones I have pronounced negative impressions of.

Alabama: Civil Rights history
Arizona: Painted Desert/Petrified Forest
California: There's a lot of stuff worth seeing, I just have a negative opinion of it overall
Connecticut: Mark Twain, Wallace Stevens, and Charles Ives-related stuff
Delaware: Some pretty nice beaches
Florida: Everglades
Idaho: The national forests
Mississippi: The blues
New Hampshire: See California
Oklahoma: Some of the most intact Native American cultures in the United States
South Carolina: Charleston
Wyoming: Yellowstone

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

AL: Doug Jones
AK: The Bush
AZ: Grand Canyon
AR: Hot Springs National Park
CA: Wine Country
CO: dude weed lmao
CT: The beaches
DE: The beaches
FL: Disney World
GA: North Georgia mountains
HI: Neil Abercrombie
ID: Shoshone Falls
IL: J.B. Pritzker and The People's Pat
IN: The Middle
IA: Farms
KS: Prairies
KY: Bluegrass music
LA: New Orleans
ME: North Maine Woods
MD: Elijah Cummings (RIP FF)
MA: Cape Cod
MI: Mackinac Island
MN: Hipster churches
MS: Delta blues
MO: The Ozarks
MT: Glacier National Park
NE: Boys Don't Cry
NV: Yosemite National Park
NH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7nQrCgALM
NJ: North Jersey accents
NM: White Sands National Park
NY: Finger Lakes
NC: Asheville
ND: Badlands
OH: Sherrod Brown
OK: Kendra Horn and being one of Eugene Debs' best states
OR: Life is Strange
PA: The Office
RI: Family Guy
SC: Charleston
SD: Mount Rushmore and the badlands
TN: Smokey Mountains
TX: Big Bend National Park
UT: Zion National Park
VT: Gun-toting liberal hippies who eat Ben & Jerry's and vote for Bernie Sanders
VA: Virginia Beach (just the beach, though - the rest of the city sucks)
WA: Grunge
WV: The Appalachian Trail
WI: Rich history of progressive politics
WY: Yellowstone National Park

[John Dule]

California doesn't need a saving grace because everything about it is awesome.

[The Free North]

California doesn't need a saving grace because everything about it is awesome.

State taxes remain fairly elevated wouldn't you say Mr. Libertarian?

[Free Bird]

Not sure about CT's, but I know for a fact it isn't New Haven LOL.