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Treasure Island
Anchors aweigh! Landlubbers approach the property via a wood-bottomed bridge with hemp rope-supported sides that spans artificial Sirens Cove , set beside a vague replica of an 18th-century sea village. The spicy Sirens of TI engage in a hilarious mock sea battle of the sexes that
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Brooklyn Heights & Downtown Brooklyn
When Robert Fultons steam ferries started regular services across the East River in the early 19th century, well-to-do Manhattanites began building stellar houses – Victorian Gothic, Romanesque, neo-Greco, Italianate and others – in Brooklyn Heights. Strolling along the tree-lined
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Houston, we have an attraction. It was perhaps inevitable that, considering its proximity to Orlando, the space center would develop a ride, and thus Shuttle Launch Experience officially achieved lift-off. Reaching a top speed of 17,500mph – vertically – this realistic simulator ri
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Keaʻiwa Heiau State Recreation Area
In the mountains north of Pearl Harbor, this state park protects Keaʻiwa Heiau, an ancient hoʻola (healing or medicinal) temple. Today people wishing to be cured may still place offerings here. The 4ft-high terraces are made of stacked rocks that enclose an approximately 16,000-sq-
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Tomorrowland
How did 1950s imagineers envision the future? As a galaxy-minded community filled with monorails, rockets and Googie-style architecture, apparently. In 1998 this ‘land’ was revamped to honor three timeless futurists – Jules Verne, HG Wells, and Leonardo da Vinci – while major corpo
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Golden Sands Beach
Sand zero, so to speak, of Nome’s famed gold rush, this beach is still open to recreational mining and all summer long you can watch miners set up work camps along the shore. Some will pan or open a sluice box right on the beach, while the more serious rig a sluice and dredging equ
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum
This museum puts the neighborhood’s heartbreaking but inspiring heritage on full display in three re-creations of turn-of-the-20th-century tenements. Re-creations include the late-19th-century home and garment shop of the Levine family from Poland, and two immigrant dwellings from
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Stratosphere
Las Vegas has many buildings over 20 stories tall, but only the Stratosphere exceeds 100. Atop the 1149ft-high tapered tripod tower, vertiginous indoor and outdoor viewing decks afford Vegas best 360-degree panoramas. There youll also find Top of the World , a revolving restaurant,
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Huliheʻe Palace
This palace is a fascinating study in the rapid shift the Hawaiian royal family made from Polynesian god-kings to Westernized monarchs. Here’s the skinny: Hawaiʻi’s second governor, ʻJohn Adams’ Kuakini, built a simple two-story, lava-rock house as his private residence in 1838. Af
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Very Large Array Radio Telescope
In some remote regions of New Mexico, TV reception is little more than a starry-eyed fantasy. About 40 miles west of Socorro, though, 27 huge antenna dishes sprout from the high plains like a couch potato’s dream come true. Actually, the 240-ton dishes comprise the National Radio A
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
A tortured region known as the badlands whose colors seem to change with the moods of nature, Theodore Roosevelt National Park is the states natural highlight. Bizarre rock formations, streaked with a rainbow of red, yellow, brown, black and silver minerals, are framed by green pra
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Flamingo
In 1946 the Flamingo was the talk of the town. Its original owners – all members of the East Coast mafia – shelled out millions to build this unprecedented tropical gaming oasis in the desert. It was prime gangster Americana, initially managed by the infamous mobster Benjamin Bugsy
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Bodie State Historic Park
At Bodie State Historic Park, a gold-rush ghost town is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Weathered buildings sit frozen in time on a dusty, windswept plain. To get there, head east for 13 miles (the last three unpaved) on Hwy 270, about 7 miles south of Bridgeport. The acces
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Guggenheim Museum
A sculpture in its own right, architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s building almost overshadows the collection of 20th century art it houses. The museum’s holdings include works by Kandinsky, Picasso and Jackson Pollock. Over time, other key additions have been made, including paintings b
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Old Faithful
Though it’s neither the tallest nor the most predictable geyser in the park, Old Faithful is the most frequently erupting big geyser in Yellowstone. Every 90 minutes or so the geyser spouts some 8000 gallons (150 bathtubs!) of water up to 180ft in the air. It’s worth viewing the er
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Antelope Island State Park
White-sand beaches, birds and buffalo are what attract people to the pretty, 15-mile-long Antelope Island State Park . That’s right, the largest island in the Great Salt Lake is home to a 600-strong herd of American bison, or buffalo. The November roundup , for veterinary examinati
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Green
If you really want to enjoy a slice of scenic Brooklyn in total peace and quiet, make for Green-Wood Cemetery. A historic burial ground set on the borough’s highest point, it covers almost 500 hilly acres. Its myriad tombs, mausoleums and patches of forest are connected by a loopin
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Seaside
Spending an afternoon or night – or even a half hour – in this perfect, Necco Wafer–colored tiny town will make you feel like youve stumbled onto a movie set. Which, in fact, you will have done, as Seaside served as the on-location set for the 1998 movie The Truman Show, which was
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Homer Spit
Generally known as ‘the Spit’, this long needle of land – a 4.5-mile sand bar stretching into Kachemak Bay – is viewed by some folks as the most fun place in Alaska. Others wish another earthquake would come along and sink the thing. Regardless, the Spit throbs all summer with tour
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Lincoln Park Zoo
The abiding Lincoln Park Zoo opened in 1868 and remains a local freebie favorite, filled with gorillas, lions, tigers and other exotic creatures in the shadow of downtown. Check out the Regenstein African Journey, Ape House and dragonfly-dappled Nature Boardwalk for the cream of th
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