Oscoda Beach Park in Michigan offers a wide stretch of soft, sugar-sand shoreline along Lake Huron, making it a favorite spot for families and beachgoers.
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach spans over 9,000 acres of diverse habitats including marshes, dunes, woodlands, beaches, and freshwater wetlands, established in 1938 to provide critical feeding and resting areas for migrating and wintering waterfowl such as ducks, snow geese, and tundra swans.
Black Mesa State Park & Nature Preserve is a unique 628-acre park in Cimarron County, Oklahoma's panhandle near Kenton, USA, along the tri-state border with Colorado and New Mexico, featuring dramatic mesas capped by ancient black lava rock from 30 million years ago.
Lake Manawa State Park encompasses 1,529 acres around a 753-acre oxbow lake formed by a Missouri River flood in 1881, located in Council Bluffs near the Omaha metro area in southwest Iowa, USA, with Manawa meaning peace and comfort in Native American terms.
Santa Fe Plaza in New Mexico is a National Historic Landmark and the historical heart of Santa Fe, serving as a central gathering place since its founding in 1610 by Spanish conquistadors.
New Hampshire Route 112, also known as the Kancamagus Highway or The Kanc, is a 56-mile east-west state highway stretching from Bath to Conway through the scenic White Mountain National Forest.
The Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, is one of the world's largest dinosaur museums featuring over 60 dinosaur skeletons and more than 50 interactive exhibits.
Hendrickson House Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, is one of the oldest surviving Swedish-American homes in the United States, originally built around 1690 by Swedish farmer Andrew Hendrickson and his wife, Brigitta Morton, in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Bear Creek Lake State Park is a 326-acre park in Cumberland, Virginia, nestled within the vast 16,000-acre Cumberland State Forest, featuring a central 40-acre manmade lake built in 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Burton Creek State Park spans nearly 2,000 acres on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in Placer County, California, just outside Tahoe City, offering a rugged, undeveloped escape amid conifer forests, shrubs, wildflower meadows in spring, and colorful cottonwoods in fall.
Historic Iron Horse Inn in Deadwood, South Dakota, is a family-owned boutique hotel blending Victorian charm with modern comforts, originally built in 1893 as a feed store and later serving as a post office before becoming an inn.
Clark Creek Natural Area, a 700-acre preserve in Wilkinson County, Mississippi near Woodville off Highway 24, features around 50 scenic waterfalls ranging from 10 to over 30 feet high amid steep loess bluffs and mixed hardwood-pine forests with rare trees like world-record Mexican plum and state-champion hophornbeam.
Brunswick, Maine, originally known by its Indigenous name Pejepscot meaning long, rocky rapids, was first settled in 1628 by fishermen and traders led by Thomas Purchase.
Comanche Star Casino in Walters, Oklahoma, is owned by the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma and located at 263171 Highway 53 off State Highway 5, offering a 33,000-square-foot gaming space with around 99 to 130 electronic gaming machines, no table games, and one restaurant called Comanche Star Grill serving all-day breakfast, hamburgers, nachos, and steak fingers.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens near Charleston, South Carolina, is one of America’s oldest public gardens, with history dating back to 1676 when the Drayton family established it as a rice plantation along the Ashley River.
