Alyeska Resort, located in Girdwood, Alaska, about 40 miles from Anchorage, is a premier year-round destination known for its luxury accommodations and outdoor adventure opportunities.
The Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, established in 1954 by the National Science Foundation, is the United States' first national astronomy observatory and the first national laboratory open to scientists globally.
MGM Grand Detroit is a luxury casino resort located in downtown Detroit, Michigan, originally opening its temporary casino in 1999 in a renovated IRS building while planning a permanent facility.
Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has been a beloved family destination since the 1890s when entrepreneur Mitchell Nejedlo purchased the land originally intended for summer cottages but transformed it into a recreational area called Bay View Beach.
Nickerson State Park is a 1,900‑acre state park in Brewster on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, known for its sandy soil, scrub pines, and a network of eight freshwater kettle ponds shaped by ancient glaciers.
Horseshoe Tunica in Mississippi is a well-known casino resort famed for its focus on serious gamblers, particularly those who enjoy table games, with over 70 table games, more than 2,000 slot machines, and a large poker room.
The Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma, inside Elmer Thomas Park, explores the human history of the Great Plains region from Paleo-Indian Clovis culture around 11,500 BCE through Native peoples, homesteaders, and modern settlers via interactive, hands-on exhibits in a 25,000-square-foot space accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1972.
Stratton Escape Room in Winhall, Vermont offers an interactive and fun experience where teams work together to solve puzzles and uncover clues to escape themed rooms within a set time limit.
The Greenwich Audubon Center in Connecticut, established in 1943, was the National Audubon Society's first environmental education center, created on land donated by Eleanor Clovis Reese and H. Hall Clovis.
Año Nuevo State Park occupies 4,000 acres along the rugged San Mateo County coastline in California, about 55 miles south of San Francisco, renowned worldwide as home to one of the largest mainland northern elephant seal breeding colonies where up to 10,000 seals gather from December through March for mating, births, and dramatic bull battles.
Fort Clatsop, a reconstructed 50-by-50-foot log stockade nestled in coastal forests near the Lewis and Clark River five miles southwest of Astoria, Oregon, served as the winter encampment for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery from December 7, 1805, to March 23, 1806, after reaching the Pacific amid relentless rain, where the 33 explorers—including Sacagawea and York—hunted elk, made salt from seawater, traded with Clatsop and Chinook tribes, and documented journals, maps, and specimens.
Purtis Creek State Park covers 1,582 acres across Henderson and Van Zandt counties in East Texas, about 3 miles north of Eustace and 60 miles southeast of Dallas via FM 316, opened in 1988 after land purchases from 1976-1982.
Grand Isle State Park spans 226 acres on South Hero Island along Lake Champlain's shore in Grand Isle, Vermont, making it one of the state's most popular spots with 4,150 feet of waterfront.
Mt. Blue State Park covers 7,489 acres in Weld, Franklin County, Maine, making it the state's largest park with sections around Webb Lake and Mount Blue rising 3,183 feet.
Aloha State Park encompasses 172 acres along the northeast shore of Mullett Lake, Michigan's fourth-largest inland lake, in Cheboygan County just south of Cheboygan near the Straits of Mackinac.
