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Fort Walla Walla Museum
This is a pioneer village of 17 historic buildings, with the museum housed in the old cavalry stables. There are collections of farm implements, ranching tools and what could be the worlds largest plastic replica of a mule team.
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Elizabeth Spencer
Taste inside an 1872 railroad depot or outdoor garden at this inviting small winery, featuring monster-sized pinot noir, grapefruity sauvignon blanc, structured light-body grenache, and signature cabernet. Bottles cost $30 to $95.
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Fujii Beach
Nicknamed Baby Beach because an offshore reef creates a shallow, placid pool of water that’s perfect for toddlers. Located in a modest neighborhood that attracts few tourists, this is a real locals’ beach, so be respectful.
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Firehouse Arts Center
Headquarters for the Del Rio Council for the Arts , the 1922 Firehouse includes a visual-arts gallery and a great little gift shop. This is HQ for the First Friday Art Walk which covers the growing number of downtown galleries.
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Jackson Glacier Overlook
This popular pull-over, located a short walk from the Gunsight Pass trailhead, offers telescopic views of the park’s fifth-largest glacier, which sits close to its eponymous 3064m (10,052ft) peak – one of the parks highest.
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Hollywood Wax Museum
Starved for celeb sightings? Don’t fret: at this museum Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry and other red-carpet royalty will stand still – very still – for your camera. This retro haven of kitsch and camp has been around for over 40 years.
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Crested Butte Cemetery
Many of the town’s pioneers are buried in the cemetery, about 0.25 miles north of town towards Mt Crested Butte. Also interred here are 59 miners who died in the Jokerville Mine explosion of 1884, many of them boys and adolescents.
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Broad Museum of Art
Renowned architect Zaha Hadid designed the wild-looking parallelogram of stainless steel and glass. It holds everything from Greek ceramics to Salvador Dali paintings. Much of the space is devoted to avant-garde exhibitions.
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Big Spring State Park
The 380-acre Big Spring State Park has a fine nature trail with labels describing the hearty plants, such as the spiky argarita bush. A short drive around the top of the park has sweeping views out across the basin and plateau.
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Berkshire Museum
This surprisingly impressive museum has a solid collection of Hudson River School artworks and a permanent Alexander Calder exhibit, as well as kid-friendly attractions like a touch-tank aquarium and a hands-on science center.
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Ariel Tramway
In the time you wait to be herded aboard a tram to the top of Prospect Mountain, you could have climbed Lily Mountain on your own two feet, but the tram is a good option for those with modest ambitions who still want the view.
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Whalehead Club
The sunflower-yellow, art nouveau-style Whalehead Club , built in the 1920s as a hunting cottage for a Philadelphia industrialist, is the centerpiece of the well-manicured Currituck Heritage Park in the village of Corolla.
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Tampa Bay History Center
This first-rate history museum presents the regions Seminole and Miccosukee people, Cracker pioneers and cattle breeders, and Tampas Cuban community and cigar industry. The cartography collection, spanning six centuries, dazzles.
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Standish
Lose yourself under giant redwoods at Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area . It has river swimming and fishing, as well as 9 miles of hiking trails in virgin and second-growth redwoods (look for the 225ft-tall Miles Standish tree).
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Stowe Craft Gallery & Design Center
Stowe has no shortage of galleries and fine craft shops with artists of local and international renown. Stowe Craft Gallery & Design Center offers some of the most adventurous, eclectic and surreal works of art and craft.
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Saint Arnold Brewery
An $8 admission gets you a brewery tour and four tokens to swap for tastings in the beer hall. (Tip buy a larger glass at the gift shop and you get larger tastes.) Tours depart at 3:30pm weekdays, on the hour during weekends.
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Kodachrome Basin State Park
Dozens of red, pink and white sandstone chimneys highlight this colorful state park, named for its photogenic landscape by the National Geographic Society. The Grand Parade Trail has the best views of sand pipes and other formations.
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Lincoln Park Conservatory
Walking through the conservatory’s three acres of desert palms, jungle ferns and tropical orchids is like taking a trip around the world in 30 minutes. The glass-bedecked hothouse remains a sultry, 75-degree escape even in winter.
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Port Isabel Historical Museum
Built (in 1899) sturdily of bricks to resist storms, the home of the history museum served at various times as the town’s railroad station, post office and general store. You’ll find it one block south of TX 100, near the lighthouse.
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Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Eighteen acres of train paraphernalia – not all of it open to visitors, but still quite a lot to see, and some trains are open for visitors to climb around in. Combo tickets are available for the Strasburg Railroad across the road.
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