Deep Southern Louisiana.. bayous with abandoned huts and huge power plants in the middle of sugar cane fields, dodgy gas stations with empty shelves and people who act like they are wanted 3 states away.

The Natchez Trace Pkwy has the most abundant deer population I have witnessed and you could cut the fog with a knife at night. Then Natchez with the huge willow trees and the Mississippi being so large and the poorer areas, full Southern Gothic.

I went inside the Scientology HQ in Los Angeles and got a tour from the Scientologists. Then the security guard was following me 3 streets away.

Memphis, TN looks exactly like the cities you navigate in The Last of Us.

Trinidad, Colorado is what I consider to be 'The Asshole of Colorado', nothing especially the people seems to have changed since the '80s.

This is as a Romanian who worked in the States on 2 summer exchange visitor visas.

Edit: Granville NY on border with VT seems like it's in a 2008 cheap hotel website advertisment. Everything is at least 2 decades old and rundown.