A.W. Marion State Park covers 310 acres near Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, featuring the serene 145-acre Hargus Lake formed by a 1948 dam on Hargus Creek amid glacially shaped till plains with fertile soils that once drew Adena people for farming 2,000 years ago.
The Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport, Mississippi, is the state's first children's museum, opening in 1998 in a renovated 1915 school building.
Little Pee Dee State Park spans 835 acres near Dillon in South Carolina's Sandhills region along the blackwater Little Pee Dee River, featuring 54-acre Lake Norton stocked with bream, bass, and catfish plus a unique Carolina Bay geological depression in the adjacent Bay Heritage Preserve.
The Pacific Science Center in Seattle was originally built as the United States Science Pavilion for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World's Fair.
Camden, Maine, incorporated in 1791 and named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, was originally inhabited by the Penobscot Nation who called the area Megunticook, meaning great swells of the sea.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, located in Kansas City's historic 18th & Vine District, was founded in 1990 to preserve and celebrate the history of African-American baseball leagues that operated during segregation when Black players were barred from Major League Baseball.
South Beach State Park is a 498-acre coastal park in Newport, Lincoln County, Oregon, USA, located next to the Yaquina Bay Bridge and just south of the South Jetty, offering miles of broad sandy beach, paved trails like the Jetty Trail for walking, biking, and jogging, and easy access to the ocean for surfing, fishing, crabbing, clamming, and beachcombing.
Lake Louisa State Park spans 4,372 acres south of Clermont in central Florida's Green Swamp region, featuring diverse landscapes of rolling hills, pine flatwoods, cypress swamps, and six lakes including the large Lake Louisa, Dixie Lake, and Hammond Lake that connect via the Palatlakaha River.
Crystal River Preserve State Park covers over 27,500 acres along Florida's Gulf Coast from Crystal River to Homosassa, preserving untouched salt marshes, tidal creeks, mangrove islands, hardwood forests, coastal scrub, and pine flatwoods that evoke the coastline from 500 years ago.
Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a unique outdoor art installation created by British artist Chris Drury in 2003, located in a wooded area of the North Carolina Museum of Art's Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park.
The Carousel Bar and Lounge, located inside the historic Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans since 1949, is famous for being the city’s only rotating bar, where 25 seats slowly spin one full revolution every 15 minutes.
Schweitzer Mountain Resort in northern Idaho is the largest ski resort in the state, boasting 2,900 acres of skiable terrain and a vertical drop of 2,440 feet.
Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park, a compact 1.3-acre site in Jacksonville, Florida, near the mouth of the St. Johns River, preserves remnants of a Civil War-era Confederate encampment built in 1862 to protect vital supply lines to the city with earthen trenches, pits, and artillery positions.
The Silver Slipper Casino Hotel in Lakeshore, Mississippi, is notable as the first land-based casino built from the ground up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, opening in November 2006.
Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park spans 330 acres in Logan County, Kansas, about 25 miles south of Oakley, showcasing 220 acres of dramatic Smoky Hill Chalk badlands with towering 100-foot spires, cliffs, narrow canyons, pinnacles, and hoodoos resembling ancient Jerusalem's walls and streets.
Gardner Heritage State Park was a small history-focused state park in Gardner, Massachusetts, housed in a former firehouse that showcased exhibits on the city's industrial past as a major furniture manufacturing hub.
Mount Pisgah State Park spans 1,302 acres in Bradford County, Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains region, midway between Troy and Towanda along Mill Creek at the base of 2,260-foot Mount Pisgah.
