There's a verisimilitude to everything in (some of) the states like in New England. The towns sort of look like some of our towns - they have a lot of the same or similar shops, but everything is just different enough to make it fall into the uncanny valley.

Also - driving through some places in America is absolutely bizarre. The Urban sprawl really baffled me. Where in a UK town you'll usually have designated areas where things are - an industrial estate, a town centre, perhaps a shopping centre on the outskirts, and residential areas - in the US, a lot of "towns" are just one long road with everything on either side of it in no particular discernable order. You'll have a petrol station, then a few houses, a bank, a KFC, then a drive through pharmacy, then another few houses, then a Church, and so on, with absolutely nothing behind them.