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Waikiki Aquarium

Waikīkī Aquarium

Waikīkī Aquarium is a historic public aquarium on the Waikīkī shoreline beside Kapiʻolani Park.

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• Family attraction
• Honolulu

Orpheum Theatre

The Orpheum Theatre is a historic concert venue located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It ranks among the city's longest-running performance spaces, having served as a major entertainment destination for well over a century.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

Promontory Point

Promontory Point is a man-made peninsula extending into Lake Michigan within Burnham Park on Chicago's South Side. Designed by Alfred Caldwell and completed in 1937, it was constructed with limestone blocks as part of the Works Progress Administration.

• High
• Historic monument
• Chicago

The Torch of Friendship

The Torch of Friendship is a bayside civic monument situated on Miami's waterfront. It stands as a public landmark commemorating international friendship and cooperation. The monument features a prominent torch structure visible from surrounding areas.

• High
• Historic monument
• Miami

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic cathedral in San Francisco's Civic Center area. Completed in 1971, it serves as the mother church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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• Place of worship
• San Francisco

New England Aquarium

New England Aquarium is a major marine-life institution on Boston’s Central Wharf, where the waterfront setting is part of the experience.

• High
• Family attraction
• Boston

Citi Field

Citi Field is a baseball stadium located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City. It serves as the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's New York Mets franchise.

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• Activity
• New York

Coconut Grove Playhouse

Coconut Grove Playhouse is a historic theatre landmark in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. Its identity is tied to live performance, theatrical architecture, and the cultural life of one of Miami’s oldest communities.

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• Art and culture venue
• Miami

Erotic Heritage Museum

The Erotic Heritage Museum is a specialist Las Vegas museum devoted to sexual culture and history. Near the Strip, it presents erotic art, historical material, and cultural interpretation in a museum setting.

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• Museum
• Las Vegas

Hampton House Motel

The Historic Hampton House

Hampton House Motel is a restored Green Book-era motel and civil-rights landmark in Miami. During segregation, it offered African American travelers a welcoming place to stay when many hotels excluded them.

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• Museum
• Miami

Kakaako Waterfront Park

Kakaʻako Waterfront Park is an open coastal park in Honolulu’s Kakaʻako district. Built on reclaimed industrial land, it gives visitors a broad Pacific outlook and a direct connection with the shoreline.

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• Nature site
• Honolulu

MIT Museum

The MIT Museum is the public museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It serves as MIT's primary venue for sharing its collections and research with the general public.

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• Museum
• Boston

National Museum of American Jewish Military History

National Museum Of American Jewish Military History

The National Museum of American Jewish Military History is a specialist museum in Washington, D.C., devoted to the military service of American Jews.

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• Museum
• Washington

Orange County Regional History Center

The Orange County Regional History Center occupies a restored historic courthouse in downtown Orlando. Operated as a county history museum, it serves as the primary institution dedicated to local and regional history in the area.

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• Museum
• Orlando

Peacock Park

Peacock Park is a bayfront public park located in Coconut Grove, Miami. It serves as both a recreational green space and a venue for public events.

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• Nature site
• Miami

Simpson Park Hammock

Simpson Park

Simpson Park Hammock is a rare tropical hardwood hammock preserve located in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

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• Nature site
• Miami

The Beat Museum

The Beat Museum is a compact museum in San Francisco’s North Beach, a neighborhood closely associated with the Beat Generation.

• High
• Museum
• San Francisco

U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii

United States Army Museum of Hawaii

The U.S. Army Museum of Hawaiʻi is a military-history museum housed in the former Battery Randolph at Fort DeRussy in Waikiki, Honolulu.

• High
• Museum
• Honolulu

West End Museum

The West End Museum

The West End Museum is a neighborhood museum in Boston devoted to the history of the city's West End. Its central story is the transformation of a working-class immigrant neighborhood during urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s.

• High
• Museum
• Boston

Universal's Islands of Adventure

Universal Islands of Adventure

Universal Islands of Adventure is a Universal Orlando theme park built around distinct themed lands, major rides and immersive entertainment. Its character comes from moving through a sequence of designed environments rather than viewing one enclosed collection.

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• Entertainment venue
• Orlando

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is Miami’s major downtown destination for live theatre, music, dance and opera.

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• Art and culture venue
• Miami

Smith Center for the Performing Arts

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts is Las Vegas’s principal nonprofit performing-arts complex in Symphony Park.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Las Vegas

Wave Organ

The Wave Organ is a public sound sculpture situated on a jetty in the Marina District of San Francisco.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• San Francisco

BP Pedestrian Bridge

BP Pedestrian Bridge is a sculptural pedestrian crossing in Chicago’s Millennium Park, designed by architect Frank Gehry. The bridge spans Columbus Drive and links Millennium Park with Daley Bicentennial Plaza.

• High
• Activity
• Chicago

American Writers Museum

The American Writers Museum is a Chicago museum devoted to American writers and literary history. Located on the second floor of a building on Michigan Avenue, it uses interactive exhibits to introduce authors, movements, and works that shaped American literature.

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• Museum
• Chicago

Children's Creativity Museum

Children’s Creativity Museum is a hands-on museum in downtown San Francisco where children and families make, record, build, and design rather than simply look at finished displays.

• High
• Museum
• San Francisco

Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is a civic-education institute located in Boston, Massachusetts. It stands beside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, forming a significant political heritage cluster on Columbia Point.

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• Museum
• Boston

Georgetown Waterfront Park

Georgetown Waterfront Park is a Potomac-side public park at the edge of historic Georgetown in Washington, D.C.

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• Nature site
• Washington

Jamaica Pond

Jamaica Pond is a large freshwater pond in Boston, Massachusetts. It forms a significant part of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace, a chain of parks designed in the late nineteenth century.

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• Nature site
• Boston

Marina Green

Marina Green is a broad bayfront public open space in San Francisco’s Marina District. Its grassy lawn and waterfront position create an open, relaxed contrast with the city’s denser streets.

• High
• Nature site
• San Francisco

Museum of Jurassic Technology

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a small museum in Culver City, Los Angeles, founded by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson in 1988.

• High
• Museum
• Los Angeles

National Law Enforcement Museum

The National Law Enforcement Museum is a national museum in Washington, D.C. interpreting American law enforcement history and service.

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• Museum
• Washington

Ping Tom Memorial Park

Ping Tom Memorial Park is a riverfront public park in Chicago's Chinatown. It brings open space, walking paths, lawns, trees, seating, and water views into a dense urban neighborhood.

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• Nature site
• Chicago

Renaissance Society

The Renaissance Society

The Renaissance Society is a long-running contemporary art centre at the University of Chicago. Founded in 1915, it is one of the oldest venues for contemporary art in the United States.

• High
• Museum
• Chicago

Shangri La Museum

Shangri La

Shangri La is Doris Duke’s former Honolulu estate, now a museum devoted to Islamic art, culture, and design.

• High
• Museum
• Honolulu

Socrates Sculpture Park

Socrates Sculpture Park is an outdoor museum and public park located in Long Island City, Queens. Established on a former landfill site along the East River, it occupies waterfront land with views of the Manhattan skyline.

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• Nature site
• New York

Spectacle Island

Spectacle Island is one of the Boston Harbor Islands, located in Massachusetts Bay. It is a publicly accessible island managed as part of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.

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• Nature site
• Boston

Sutro Heights Park

Sutro Heights Park is a historic bluff-top public park in San Francisco's Outer Richmond district.

• High
• Nature site
• San Francisco

Arena Stage

Arena Stage is a leading resident theatre in Washington, D.C., focused on American plays and new work. Founded in 1950, it has established itself as a major cultural institution dedicated to American voices and stories.

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• Activity
• Washington

Old St. Patrick's Church

Old Saint Patrick's Church

Old St. Patrick's Church is a Roman Catholic parish in Chicago and one of the city's oldest surviving churches.

• High
• Place of worship
• Chicago

Fremont East Entertainment District

Fremont East Entertainment District is a designated nightlife and arts corridor in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It extends eastward from the Fremont Street Experience canopy, forming a distinct zone with its own identity.

• High
• Historic monument
• Las Vegas

Murphy Windmill

Murphy Windmill is a restored historic windmill at the southwest edge of Golden Gate Park, close to Lincoln Way and the Great Highway.

• High
• Historic monument
• San Francisco

Tower Theater

Tower Theater is a historic cinema and cultural venue on Calle Ocho in Miami’s Little Havana. Its location places it at the centre of one of the city’s most recognisable Cuban-American and Latin American cultural corridors.

• High
• Historic monument
• Miami

Universal CityWalk Orlando

Universal CityWalk Orlando is the pedestrian entrance district linking several parts of Universal Orlando Resort. It is a destination for dining, shopping and entertainment, with a resort atmosphere built around themed streets, storefronts and evening activity.

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• Historic monument
• Orlando

Auditorium Theatre

The Auditorium Theatre is a historic performance venue located within the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by the renowned architectural firm Adler and Sullivan, with Louis Sullivan as the lead architect and Dankmar Adler handling the engineering.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Chicago

Herbst Theatre

War Memorial Veterans Building Herbst Theatre

Herbst Theatre is a historic auditorium located within the Veterans Building in San Francisco's Civic Center. The venue has served as a significant cultural and civic gathering space since its establishment.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• San Francisco

Saints Peter and Paul Church

Saints Peter and Paul Church is a prominent Catholic parish in San Francisco’s North Beach, facing Washington Square Park. Its twin spires make it one of the neighborhood’s clearest landmarks and connect the church visually with the surrounding Italian-American district.

• High
• Place of worship
• San Francisco

Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo is a free public zoo founded in 1868 within landscaped Lincoln Park. Its visitor experience is defined by large mammals, primates, African habitats, farm animals, birds, indoor houses, gardens, and Nature Boardwalk.

• High
• Family attraction
• Chicago

Shakespeare Theatre Company

The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a prominent classical theatre company based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1986, it has established itself as one of the leading American theatres dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare and other classical dramatists.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• Washington

Edge

Edge is an outdoor observation deck high above Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side. Its platform projects outward from the skyscraper, creating a floating sensation above the city.

• High
• Viewpoint
• New York

City Lights Bookstore

City Lights Booksellers

City Lights Booksellers is a historic independent bookstore in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D.

• High
• Market
• San Francisco

Original Farmers Market

Farmers Market

The Original Farmers Market is a long-running food market in Los Angeles, located in the Fairfax district. Established in 1934, it has operated continuously for decades as a defining destination for the neighborhood.

• High
• Market
• Los Angeles

Aquarium of the Pacific

The Aquarium of the Pacific is a large regional aquarium located in Long Beach, California, within the greater Los Angeles area. It opened in 1998 and focuses on marine life from the Pacific Ocean.

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• Family attraction
• Los Angeles

Museum Campus

Museum Campus is a 57-acre park in Chicago along Lake Michigan, created in 1998. It connects three major natural history and science museums: the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Adler Planetarium.

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• Museum
• Chicago

Wynwood Walls

Wynwood Walls is a purpose-built open-air museum in Miami’s Wynwood arts district, northwest of Downtown Miami, where large-scale contemporary murals are presented inside a curated visitor compound.

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• Historic monument
• Miami

Ala Moana Beach Park

Ala Moana Beach Park is a large sheltered urban beach park located opposite the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

• High
• Nature site
• Honolulu

Bay of Pigs Museum

The Bay of Pigs Museum is a specialist Cuban-exile history museum in Miami, Florida. It documents the history of Brigade 2506, the Cuban exile group that participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

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• Museum
• Miami

Charles River Esplanade

The Charles River Esplanade is a central riverside park and outdoor-events landscape along the Boston shore of the Charles River. It functions as a linear public park system extending from the Boston Museum of Science to the Boston University Bridge.

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• Nature site
• Boston

Corona Heights Park

Corona Heights Park is a compact public park atop a rocky hill in San Francisco, California. The park occupies a prominent outcrop of Franciscan chert, offering unusually broad panoramic views across the city.

• High
• Nature site
• San Francisco

Driehaus Museum

Richard H. Driehaus Museum

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum occupies the historic Samuel M. Nickerson House in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Built in 1883, this Gilded Age mansion exemplifies elaborate Victorian architecture and design.

• High
• Museum
• Chicago

Embarcadero Plaza

Embarcadero Plaza is a civic plaza located on San Francisco's eastern waterfront, adjacent to the historic Ferry Building.

• High
• Nature site
• San Francisco

Floyd Lamb Park

Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs

Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs is a historic ranch landscape and large public park located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The site encompasses former ranch lands centered on natural springs that sustained human activity for millennia.

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• Nature site
• Las Vegas

Glen Canyon Park

Glen Canyon Park preserves a rare natural canyon within San Francisco. Islais Creek runs through steep rocky slopes, grassland, coastal scrub, and riparian vegetation.

• High
• Nature site
• San Francisco

Las Vegas Natural History Museum

Las Vegas Natural History Museum is a nonprofit museum near Downtown that introduces natural history through dinosaurs, marine life, African wildlife, local ecology and ancient Egyptian material.

• High
• Museum
• Las Vegas

Lied Discovery Children's Museum

Discovery Children's Museum

DISCOVERY Children’s Museum is a three-floor interactive museum in Downtown Las Vegas designed around learning through play. Exhibits address science, engineering, art, health, community life and imaginative problem-solving rather than displaying a conventional object collection.

• High
• Museum
• Las Vegas

Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas

Nevada State Museum

Nevada State Museum is a state-operated history museum at the Springs Preserve campus in Las Vegas.

• High
• Museum
• Las Vegas

Nichols House Museum

Nichols House Museum is a historic house museum in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. The former Nichols family residence preserves the domestic setting of a wealthy Boston household whose members lived in the house for nearly a century.

• High
• Museum
• Boston

Orlando Science Center

Orlando Science Center and Dr Phillips Cinedome

Orlando Science Center and Dr Phillips Cinedome is a science-focused attraction in Orlando’s Loch Haven cultural district, with a combination that gives this place a more specific identity than a standard museum stop.

• High
• Museum
• Orlando

Oz Park

Oz Park is a neighbourhood park in Chicago’s Lincoln Park area, known for its public art inspired by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

• High
• Nature site
• Chicago

Tank Hill

Tank Hill is a compact open-space summit and viewpoint in San Francisco. Managed as part of the city’s park system, it offers a close perspective across central San Francisco from a residential hilltop setting.

• High
• Nature site
• San Francisco

Topanga State Park

Topanga State Park is a broad protected landscape in the Santa Monica Mountains within Los Angeles.

• High
• Nature site
• Los Angeles

Tropical Park

Tropical Park is a large Miami-Dade County recreation park in Miami, Florida. It is best understood as a broad outdoor destination rather than a single monument or enclosed attraction.

• High
• Nature site
• Miami

Aquarium of the Bay

Aquarium of the Bay is a family-oriented aquarium at Pier 39 on San Francisco’s waterfront. Its focus is the aquatic life and habitats of San Francisco Bay and nearby waters, rather than a broad collection of distant ocean environments.

• High
• Family attraction
• San Francisco

New York Aquarium

The New York Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Brooklyn, New York City. It is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, having opened in 1896.

• High
• Family attraction
• New York

Great American Music Hall

The Great American Music Hall is an ornate live music venue in San Francisco, established in 1907. It is a durable part of the city's live-music circuit, hosting performances across genres.

• High
• Art and culture venue
• San Francisco

Congregation Emanu-El

Temple Emanu-el

Congregation Emanu-El is a historic Reform Jewish synagogue in San Francisco, founded in 1850. Its current temple dates from 1926 and serves an active congregation as well as the city’s wider cultural and religious landscape.

• High
• Place of worship
• San Francisco

Kawaiahaʻo Church

Kawaiaha'o Church

Kawaiahaʻo Church is a historic coral-block church in downtown Honolulu. Built in the nineteenth century, it served as the national church of the Hawaiian Kingdom and stood at the centre of the monarchy's religious and political life.

• High
• Place of worship
• Honolulu

Alamo Square Park

Alamo Square

Alamo Square is a public park in San Francisco, California. The park occupies a hilltop location in the Western Addition neighborhood and provides elevated views across the city.

• High
• Nature site
• San Francisco

Adventuredome

The Adventuredome

The Adventuredome is an indoor amusement park located at Circus Circus Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It operates under a large pink glass dome visible from outside.

• High
• Entertainment venue
• Las Vegas

Lincoln Road

Lincoln Road Mall

Lincoln Road Mall is a pedestrian shopping and dining street in Miami Beach, Florida. It serves as a landmark destination within the city, functioning as an open-air commercial promenade closed to regular vehicle traffic.

• High
• Market
• Miami

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is a public marine-science aquarium located on the waterfront in San Pedro, Los Angeles. It serves as both an educational facility and research center focused on Southern California marine life.

• High
• Family attraction
• Los Angeles

The First Church of Christ, Scientist

First Church of Christ Scientist

The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the mother church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science denomination, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879.

• High
• Place of worship
• Boston

Chicago Lakefront Trail

The Chicago Lakefront Trail is an extensive multi-use path running along the western shore of Lake Michigan. It stretches through Chicago's lakefront park system, connecting numerous neighborhoods and recreational areas.

• High
• Activity
• Chicago

Fort Winfield Scott

Fort Winfield Scott is a former army post located within the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park site managed by the National Park Service.

• High
• Historic monument
• San Francisco

Skydeck Chicago

SkyDeck Chicago Willis Tower

Skydeck Chicago is the public observation experience high in Willis Tower, completed as Sears Tower in 1973. Its visitor experience is defined by Chicago interpretation, high-level views in four directions, elevators, and The Ledge glass boxes.

• High
• Historic monument
• Chicago

Balmy Alley

Balmy Alley is a one-block residential passage in San Francisco’s Mission District and one of the city’s most concentrated mural corridors. The alley runs between 24th Street and 25th Street, with painted garage doors and fences forming an open-air gallery.

• Notable
• Art and culture venue
• San Francisco

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Doctor Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Doctor Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is downtown Orlando’s purpose-built home for live performance, where the identity of the stop is shaped by programmed events rather than a permanent collection or a walk-through attraction.

• Notable
• Art and culture venue
• Orlando

The Anthem

The Anthem is a large modern concert venue located at The Wharf, a redeveloped waterfront district in Washington, D.C. It serves as a major performance space for live music and entertainment events.

• Notable
• Art and culture venue
• Washington

Yoda Fountain

Yoda Fountain is a bronze public-art sculpture in San Francisco’s Presidio, outside the Letterman Digital Arts Center associated with Lucasfilm.

• Notable
• Art and culture venue
• San Francisco

First United Methodist Church of Chicago

The First United Methodist Church of Chicago occupies the historic Chicago Temple Building, a distinctive skyscraper in downtown Chicago. Founded in 1831, it is the oldest church in the city.

• Notable
• Place of worship
• Chicago

St. James Cathedral

St. James Episcopal Cathedral

St. James Cathedral is an historic Episcopal cathedral on Huron Street in Chicago. It is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, serving as both an active parish church and the seat of the diocesan bishop.

• Notable
• Place of worship
• Chicago

St. Michael's Church, Old Town

Saint Michael Roman Catholic Church

St. Michael's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Chicago's Old Town. Its strongest historical distinction is survival through the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed much of the city.

• Notable
• Place of worship
• Chicago

Universal's Volcano Bay

Universal Volcano Bay

Universal Volcano Bay is Universal Orlando’s dedicated water theme park, built around a prominent volcano-themed aquatic setting.

• Notable
• Entertainment venue
• Orlando

Christopher Columbus Park

Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park

Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park is a public waterfront park in Boston's North End. It sits beside Boston Harbor and offers views toward the downtown skyline, making it a natural pause during a walk through the historic neighborhood.

• Notable
• Nature site
• Boston

James P. Kelleher Rose Garden

James P. Kelleher Rose Garden is a formal rose garden located within the Back Bay Fens in Boston, Massachusetts. It is part of the Emerald Necklace park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

• Notable
• Nature site
• Boston

Anacostia Park

Anacostia Park is a large riverside park in Washington, D.C., situated along the Anacostia River. The park provides public access to the river and contains various recreation areas for visitors.

• Notable
• Nature site
• Washington

Eastern Market

Eastern Market is Capitol Hill's historic public market in Washington, D.C. Established in 1873, it has served as a commercial and community hub for nearly 150 years.

• Notable
• Market
• Washington

Grand Central Market

The market opened in 1917 when downtown Los Angeles was developing around streetcar movement and dense commercial blocks. Grand Central Market's long history reflects downtown's movement through periods of prosperity, decline and renewed residential growth.

• Notable
• Market
• Los Angeles

Merchandise Mart

The Merchandise Mart is a massive Art Deco commercial landmark situated on the Chicago River. Completed in 1930, it was once the largest building in the world by floor area.

• Notable
• Market
• Chicago