There are only a few states that are instantly recognizable by their shape alone, Texas being the most identifiable one. It didn't start out looking that way though.
A man wanted for the statutory rape of a child in North Carolina faked his own death in a "kayaking accident" in Louisiana before being arrested in Georgia.
The infamous UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico was the flashpoint in a debate over whether UFO's are real and how todays technology was really developed.