Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland's historic Old Town Chinatown occupies a full city block as an authentic Ming Dynasty-style oasis built from 1999-2000 by over 65 artisans from sister city Suzhou, China, using 500 tons of Lake Tai rocks, handcrafted pavilions, and traditional elements like serpentine paths, zig-zag bridges, and Zither Lake stocked with koi.
The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1999 by Tod Swormstedt, editor of Signs of the Times magazine, opened to the public in 2005 and moved to a 42,000-square-foot historic building in Camp Washington in 2012 after expanding its collection.
Cliff's Amusement Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a family-owned amusement and water park opened in 1959 by Cliff and Zella Hammond as Uncle Cliff's Kiddieland on Lomas Boulevard, later relocating amid neighbor complaints to Tijeras Canyon briefly before settling at its current 9-acre site at 4800 Osuna Rd. NE in 1963, evolving through name changes to Uncle Cliff's Familyland in 1964 and Cliff's Amusement Park by 1991 to reflect growth beyond kiddie rides.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene showcases over 15,000 works spanning Asian, European, American, and Latin American art in a historic 1933 building designed by Ellis F. Lawrence to house Gertrude Bass Warner's 3,700-piece Murray Warner Collection of East Asian objects, blending Romanesque, Gothic, and Islamic styles with intricate brickwork and National Register status.
The Flood Memorial Monument in Grand Forks, North Dakota, stands in Memorial Park along the Red River as an obelisk commemorating devastating floods, especially the catastrophic 1997 event that forced the evacuation of the city and destroyed structures like the Security Building on its site.
Thanksgiving Point is a nonprofit organization based in Lehi, Utah, that operates a large indoor and outdoor complex focused on education, agriculture, science, and natural history.
Mill Bluff State Park in Wisconsin, near Camp Douglas, showcases dramatic sandstone bluffs rising 80 to 200 feet high, formed 12,000 years ago as islands in Glacial Lake Wisconsin during the last Ice Age.
Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site marks the western gateway to Oregon's Columbia River Gorge in eastern Multnomah County, USA, near Troutdale and Corbett at the Sandy River's confluence with the Columbia River along the Historic Columbia River Highway (Highway 30).
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park spans 166 acres on a barrier island in North Naples, Florida, USA, offering one of the state's most pristine mile-long white-sand beaches backed by tropical sea grapes, cabbage palms, and mangrove swamps along the Cocohatchee River.
The Coachella Valley Preserve’s Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve is a protected desert oasis near Palm Springs that shelters a cluster of native California fan palms and spring-fed pools created where groundwater rises along fault lines, making a surprisingly lush refuge in an otherwise arid landscape.
Bradford Pines Natural Area in Bradford, New Hampshire, is a small state-owned preserve along West Branch Brook, celebrated for its rare stand of massive old-growth white pines—some over 140 feet tall and 58 inches in diameter, dating back to the American Revolution era.
Kickapoo Casino Shawnee in Shawnee, Oklahoma, is owned and operated by the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, located at 38900 W MacArthur Dr, about 30 minutes east of Oklahoma City, and open daily from 10am to 2am.
The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Washburn, North Dakota, overlooks the Missouri River and focuses on the Corps of Discovery's winter encampment at Fort Mandan in 1804-1805, highlighting interactions with Mandan and Hidatsa peoples amid a historic trade crossroads.
Meow Wolf Santa Fe in New Mexico is the flagship immersive art installation called House of Eternal Return, opened in 2016 inside a former bowling alley purchased by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, transforming a 20,000-square-foot space into a mind-bending multiverse created by over 500 local artists blending sculpture, technology, sound, and interactivity.
