Rice Lake State Park is a compact 15-acre day-use area on the southern shore of 1,200-acre Rice Lake—one of Iowa's few remaining natural shallow lakes—in Winnebago County near Lake Mills, north-central Iowa, USA.
Portland Art Museum, the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest founded in 1892 by the Portland Art Association with a $10,000 gift from Henry Corbett for plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures, grew from library displays to its landmark Pietro Belluschi-designed building at Southwest Park Avenue and Jefferson Street opened in 1932 amid the Depression.
Morrison-Rockwood State Park encompasses 1,164 acres of rolling hills and dense woodlands north of Morrison in Whiteside County, northern Illinois, established in 1971 and named for the nearby city, Rock Creek, and its heavily wooded Rockwood terrain.
OC&E Woods Line State Trail is Oregon's longest linear state park at 109 miles, running through Klamath and Lake counties from Klamath Falls east to Bly and north to Sycan Marsh along the abandoned railbeds of the Oregon, California & Eastern Railroad and Weyerhaeuser Woods Line.
Rocks State Park is a roughly 855–1,060‑acre Maryland state park in northern Harford County near the town of Jarrettsville, nestled in the Deer Creek Valley just north of Baltimore.
Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois, is a well-known zoological park that opened on July 1, 1934, and quickly gained international recognition for its innovative use of open-air, unbarred enclosures with moats and ditches instead of cages.
Reed Island State Park encompasses a 510-acre island on the Columbia River in Clark County, Washington, about three miles east of Washougal, accessible only by boat and part of the Columbia River Water Trail.
The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, is centered around the historic home of Florence Griswold, who transformed her family house into a boardinghouse that became the hub of the Lyme Art Colony, a pivotal community for American Impressionist painters in the early 20th century.
Mount Desert Island is the largest island off the coast of Maine and the sixth-largest in the contiguous United States, covering about 108 square miles with a length of 24 miles and a width of 13 miles.
Century Casino & Hotel Cripple Creek is a historic gaming and lodging property in downtown Cripple Creek, Colorado, part of the historic gold mining district and operated by Century Casinos.
Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Casino is a longstanding locals casino and hotel at 681 South Highway 160 in Pahrump, Nevada, one of the oldest gaming spots in southwest Nevada since opening in 1959.
The Whitney Plantation, located in Louisiana, is a unique and powerful museum dedicated exclusively to telling the story of American slavery, focusing on the lives and experiences of the enslaved people rather than the plantation owners.
Olde Mistick Village in Connecticut is a charming outdoor shopping center designed to resemble a 1720s New England colonial village, located on land that was once a farm bought in 1963 by Martin Olson.
Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, is a famous public art installation created in 1974 by the art group Ant Farm, consisting of Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez, and Doug Michels.
Connor Battlefield State Historic Site in Ranchester, Wyoming, along the Tongue River just off I-90, commemorates the August 29, 1865, Battle of Tongue River, where Brigadier General Patrick E. Connor's 250 U.S. soldiers and 80 Pawnee scouts surprised and attacked an Arapaho village of about 500 people led by Chief Black Bear and Old David during the Powder River Indian Expedition.
South Mountain State Park is a long, narrow Maryland state park of roughly 7,700–8,000 acres running along the South Mountain ridge in Frederick and Washington counties, from the Pennsylvania border down to the Potomac River near Boonsboro.
