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Full Gospel Tabernacle Church
On Sunday, put on your smell goods and head to services in South Memphis, where soul music legend turned reverend Al Green presides over a powerful choir. Visitors are welcome; its a fascinating cultural experience.
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Fort Ticonderoga
In a major victory in the American Revolution, the Green Mountain Boys took this fort from the British in 1775. With costumed guides, reenactments, a museum and hiking trails, its possible to spend a full day here.
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Elvis Presleys Birthplace
Elvis Presleys Birthplace is east of downtown off Hwy 78. The 15-acre park complex contains the two-room shack Elvis lived in as a boy, a museum displaying personal items, a modest chapel and a massive gift shop.
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Chinese American Museum
Follow the red lanterns to the small 1890 Garnier Building, once the unofficial Chinatown ‘city hall’. Changing exhibits highlight various historical, cultural and artistic aspects of the Chinese American experience.
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Charleston Tea Plantation
The agricultural Wadmalaw Island is home to Charleston Tea Plantation , Americas only working tea farm. Ride a trolley through the fields, or buy prettily packaged Plantation Peach and Island Green teas in the gift shop.
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Center for Creative Photography
The CCP is known for its ever-changing, high-caliber exhibits. It also administers the archives of Ansel Adams, perhaps the best-regarded landscape photographer in American history, and occasionally displays his works.
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Carlsbad Coast
Carlsbad’s long, sandy beaches are great for walking and searching for seashells. Good access is from Carlsbad Blvd, two blocks south of Carlsbad Village Dr, where there’s a boardwalk, rest rooms and free parking.
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Alhambra Entrance
Coral Gables–designer George Merrick planned a series of elaborate entry gates to the city, but the real-estate bust meant that projects went unfinished. Among the completed gates worth seeing is the Alhambra Entrance.
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African Meeting House
This worthwhile museum stands as testimony to the influential African American community that thrived on Nantucket in the 19th century. Built in 1820, its the second-oldest African American meeting house in the nation.
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USS Iowa
Step onto the gangway and take a self-guided audio tour of this retired Pacific battleship, which transported FDR and General Douglas MacArthur during WWII and saw action in the Cold War and beyond. Hourly parking is $1.
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Twenty Rows
Downtown Napa’s only working winery crafts light-on-the-palate cabernet sauvignon for just $20 a bottle. Taste in a chilly garage, on plastic furniture, with fun dudes who know their wines. Good sauvignon blanc, too.
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Siskiyou County Museum
Several blocks south of Yrekas downtown grid, this exceptionally well-curated museum brings together pioneer and Native American history. An outdoor section contains historic buildings brought from around the county.
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Whidbeys Greenbank Berry Farm
Go 10 miles south of Coupeville to find the worlds largest producer of loganberries, a sweet, blackish berry rather like a black raspberry. The winery-style farm is open daily for touring, tasting and picnicking.
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Texas Seaport Museum & Tallship Elissa
This vast museum explains every facet of life around Galvestons port during its heyday in the 19th century. Outside, clamber aboard to tour the Elissa, a beautiful 1877 Scottish tall ship that is still seaworthy.
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Roma Bluffs
The Roma Bluffs is right downtown and includes 3 acres of lush nature preserve along the banks of the Rio Grande. A lookout of the namesake bluff has great views of birds (!), Mexico and the thinly populated countryside.
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Pearson Air Museum
Just east of Fort Vancouver, this museum is devoted to the colorful history of Northwest aviation. A number of historic planes are on display in the main hangar, surrounded by exhibits on the golden age of flight.
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Pioneer Plaza
For a Texas–sized photo op or just a sight of the largest bronze monument on earth, head to Pioneer Plaza. Its showpiece is a collection of 40 bronze larger-than-life longhorns, amassed as if they were on a cattle drive.
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Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park is the east shores biggest draw. Summer crowds splash in the turquoise waters of Sand Harbor The 15-mile Flume Trail , a mountain bikers holy grail, starts further south at Spooner Lake .
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Kodiak Fisheries Research Center
Opened in 1998 to house the fisheries research being conducted by various agencies, the center has an interesting lobby that includes displays, touch tanks, a large aquarium and a 19ft Cuvier’s beaked whale skeleton.
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Hyde Street Pier Historic Ships
Tour 19th-century ships moored here as part of the Maritime National Historical Park, including triple-masted 1886 Balclutha and 1890 steamboat Eureka ; summer sailing trips are available aboard elegant 1891 schooner Alma .
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