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Hardings Beach
Chatham doesn’t come up short on sand. For the warmer waters of Nantucket Sound, the long and sandy Hardings Beach is the prize. To reach it, take Bank Hill Rd from MA 28. Parking costs $15.
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Cincinnati Art Museum
The collection spans 6000 years, with an emphasis on ancient Middle Eastern art and European old masters, plus a wing devoted to local works. Parking costs $4, or get here via Bus 1.
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Christmas Story House & Museum
Remember the beloved 1983 film A Christmas Story, in which Ralphie yearns for a Red Ryder BB gun? The original house sits in Tremont, complete with leg lamp. Its for true fans only.
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Chronic Cellars
Everyones favorite irreverent winery, where Día de Los Muertos designs cover bottles of bold blends. Play billiards in the tasting room or a game of horseshoes outside on the grass.
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Cape May Lighthouse
In the lush wetlands of Cape May Point State Park, this 1869 lighthouse gives a fine view. Its also open full-moon nights Apr-Sep. At the base are exhibits on wildlife in the area.
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Bryant
At game time all migrate to Bryant-Denny Stadium, a 102,000 capacity football stadium that looks out onto the rolling hills and is always packed with rabid fans, and with good reason.
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Worlds Largest Outdoor Chandelier
Hokey but true: Cleveland recently installed the Worlds Largest Outdoor Chandelier. The 20ft sparkler, with 4200 faux crystals, dangles over Playhouse Sq and has become a popular photo op.
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Willie Nelson Museum
Outlaw Country star Willie Nelson sold all his worldly goods to pay off $16.7 million in tax debt in the early 1990s. You can see them at this quirky museum not far from the Grand Ole Opry.
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Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Most people stop for a look into the past at the domed Sternberg Museum of Natural History . It houses many unusual fossils, including its famous fish-within-a-fish, and animated dinosaurs.
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Volcano Winery
With grapes grown in Mauna Loas volcanic soil, this winery inland from Hwy 11 pours bottles with some very unusual (read: supersweet) flavor infusions: tea, macadamia nuts, honey and guava.
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Ulua Beach
Snorkelers should head straight for Ulua Beach, to the south of the point. The coral at the rocky outcrop on the right side of Ulua Beach offers Wailea’s best easy-access snorkeling.
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Travel Town
This delightful rail yard displays dozens of vintage railcars and locomotives, the oldest from 1864. Kids are all smiles imagining themselves as engineers, clambering around the iron horses.
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Toy Train Depot
Railroad buffs and kids flock to this 1898 railway depot, for five rooms of train memorabilia and toy trains, and a 2.5-mile narrow-gauge minitrain you can ride through Alameda Park.
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Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelts home, often called the summer White House, is open to visitors by guided tour. Theres also an excellent museum (free), and the surrounding land is a nature preserve.
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River Valley Pioneer Museum
Main St – often a place to watch out for falling bricks in other small Texas towns – has been much-restored; also located here is an excellent museum, the River Valley Pioneer Museum .
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Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Four miles south of Dale, off I-64, is the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, where young Abe lived from age seven to 21. This isolated site also includes admission to a working pioneer farm.
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La Conner Quilt Museum
Of more specialized interest, the quilt museum displays examples of quilt art from several generations. The museum is housed in the old Gaches mansion, which has stood here since 1891.
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Pensacola Museum of Art
In the citys old jail (1908), this lovely art museum features an impressive, growing collection of major 20th- and 21st-century artists, spanning cubism, realism, pop art and folk art.
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New York Hall of Science
Occupying a weird 1965 building, rippling with stained glass, this science museum is unapologetically nerdy. An outdoor minigolf course and playground dont require as much brain power.
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Scottsdale Historical Museum
One of the buildings with genuine history in Old Town Scottsdale is the Little Red School House, now home of the Scottsdale Historical Museum, whose exhibits are well meaning but ho-hum.
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