Harry A. Merlo State Recreation Area is a small coastal park in Humboldt County that provides public access to Big Lagoon, a shallow coastal lagoon ideal for boating, kayaking, and fishing, with a calm water surface and a 5 mph boat speed limit for small craft.
Shades State Park in Montgomery, Parke, and Fountain Counties, Indiana, USA, spans over 3,000 acres of dramatic sandstone cliffs, deep ravines, and forested canyons along Sugar Creek, about 47 miles west-northwest of Indianapolis.
Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz is a small, scenic coastal park famous for its mudstone rock arch, accessible tide pools and a protected monarch butterfly grove that draws thousands of overwintering butterflies each fall and winter.
Trump Winery in Virginia, situated just outside Charlottesville on the Monticello Wine Trail, is the state’s largest vineyard with about 1,300 acres of picturesque land and 227 acres dedicated to French vinifera grapes, making it the largest of its kind on the East Coast.
St. Simons Island, Georgia, is the largest barrier island in the Golden Isles chain, located in Glynn County along the southeast Atlantic coast midway between Savannah and Jacksonville, covering about 18 square miles with 10% water amid marshes, beaches, and maritime forests.
Wilson Island State Recreation Area spans 544 acres of dense cottonwood forests along the Missouri River in Harrison County near Missouri Valley, western Iowa, USA, named for former Governor George Wilson and formed from a 1900 sandbar.
Lancaster Central Market in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, dates back to 1730, making it the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in the United States.
Forest Lake State Park spans 397 acres in Dalton, New Hampshire, near Route 116 off Forest Lake Road, featuring a 200-foot sandy beach on Forest Lake amid a woodland setting at about 1,100 feet elevation.
Springfield Recreation Area in Bon Homme County, southeastern South Dakota, nestles along the shores of Lewis and Clark Lake on the Missouri River, just 1 mile east of Springfield off SD Highway 37 at 1412 Boat Basin Drive.
Fort Abercrombie State Historic Park, located on Kodiak Island, Alaska, covers 182 acres and was established in 1969 to preserve the historical World War II coastal defense fortifications built in 1941.
The History Colorado Center in Denver is a modern museum dedicated to telling the diverse and rich history of Colorado through interactive and engaging exhibits designed for all ages.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was built between 1869 and 1887 under Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy on the site of an earlier adobe church that dated back to 1714, which itself replaced an even older church destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt.
Mountaineer Casino Resort, located on the Ohio River north of New Cumberland in West Virginia's northern panhandle near the Ohio border, spans 77 acres of wooded hillside and pioneered the U.S. racino model as the first racetrack to add slot machines in 1994 after opening as Waterford Park thoroughbred track in 1951.
The Desert of Maine is a unique natural attraction located in Freeport, Maine, known for its 20 acres of exposed glacial sand dunes that resemble a desert landscape in the middle of a forested region.
The Keith Albee Performing Arts Center in Huntington, West Virginia, originally opened in 1928 as a vaudeville and movie theater built by the Hyman brothers to bring upscale entertainment to the city.
Fox Ridge State Park spans 2,064 acres of dramatic rolling hills, steep wooded ridges, lush valleys, and bluffs along the Embarras River in Coles County, east-central Illinois, just south of Charleston.
Perdido Key State Park, a 247-acre barrier island park 15 miles southwest of Pensacola in Florida's panhandle, features Florida's westernmost public beach with wide white quartz sands, rolling sea oat-covered dunes, and pristine Gulf waters ideal for swimming, sunbathing, surf fishing, and beachcombing.
