One of the most
informative sites on the internet is David Dutton's. It should be the
first place you look when planning your US trip.
Coolest Places to Visit in the United
States
by David Duttton
When in the United States, there is an endless
list of places to visit and it will depend on your interests, the time
you have to spend and how far you wish to travel.
In the state of Arizona, you will find the Grand
Canyon. Created by the Colorado River over 6 million years, it is a
spectacular gorge stretching 277 miles with widths of between 4 to 18
miles and depths of more than a mile.
California boasts some really interesting places
to visit including the infamous Alcatraz Prison, Death Valley National
Park, which is the hottest, driest and lowest deserts on earth, The
Hearst Castle, J.Paul Getty Museum and the Griffith Observatory, which
are both in L.A. Depending on what time of year you plan to visit,
Yosemite National Park will offer you something different and a visit
to California would not be complete without tour of Warner Brothers
Studio in Burbank.
The Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum and the USS
Nautilus Submarine Museum makes Connecticut a must stop for those of
you interested in the sea and the vessels that traverse under and over
the waves.
The Historical Society of Delaware takes up a 500
block of a mall in Wilmington and includes the Delaware History Museum,
the Old Town Hall, Willington Square and HSD's research Library.
High on the list of places to visit in the USA
would have to be NASA's Kennedy Space Center and for over thirty years
tours groups have heard the stories of men in space and indeed on the
moon. Castillo de San Marcos and the Florida Museum of Natural History
are well worth a look as well.
Popping over to Hawaii you can visit the great
beaches and many monuments and sights but the one that immediately come
to mind is the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
Back on the mainland, the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum and Lincoln's Home at Springfield as
well as Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio at Oak Park are the
interesting points in Illinois.
Lincoln City, Indiana is home to Abraham Lincoln
Boyhood National Memorial and Louisiana boasts the National World War
II Museum in New Orleans and Oak Valley Plantation in Vacherie.
In Maine, there is the Maine Maritime Museum and
the seashore trolley Museum while in Maryland you can see the Antietam
(Civil War) National Battlefield and the Museum of Maryland African
American History and Culture.
Massachusetts offers a smorgasbord of places to
visit including Historic Salem, famous for the Witch Trials, Plymouth
Plantation and the Pilgrim Hall Museum both at Plymouth, Paul Revere
House, John F Kennedy Presidential Library, Museum of Fine Arts, USS
Constitution Ship Museum and The freedom Trail all at Boston. Do not
forget Harvard University and Historic Deerfield as well as the
National Heritage Museum at Lexington and Battleship Cove at Fall
River.
In Michigan there is the Henry Ford Museum at
Dearborn and the Gerald R Ford Museum at Grand Rapids.
Missouri is home to the Harry S Truman
Presidential Library.
Nevada has the Hoover Dam.
New Jersey there is the Morristown National
historical Park and the Thomas Edison National Historical Site.
Places to visit in New York are the Empire State
Building, the world Famous Statue of Liberty, Intrepid Sea-Air-Space
Museum, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, National Baseball Hall of
Fame, West Point (US Military Academy) and the American Museum of
Natural History.
The home of the Vanderbilt's, Baltimore Estate and
the historic Latta Plantation are both situated in North Carolina and
South Carolina is home to Fort Sumter.
The United States Air Force Museum is near Dayton,
Ohio and in Oregon you can visit the Lewis and Clark National and State
Historical Parks.
Steeped in history, is Pennsylvania is home of the
Gettysburg Battlefield, National Civil War Museum, Independence Hall,
National Constitution Center and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Mount Rushmore National Park in South Dakota is
known the world over and while you're in the area, there is Badlands
National Park and Black hills National forest as well.
In Tennessee there is the National Civil Rights
Museum and Texas is the home of The Alamo and NASA's Johnson Space
Center.
In Virginia, there is the Home of Thomas
Jefferson, Monticello, Mount Vernon, the Home of George Washington and
Stratford Hall Plantation which was the birthplace of Robert E. Lee.
The name Washington speaks for itself, The White
House, Arlington National Cemetery, Smithsonian Museums, Lincoln
Memorial, and Memorials of Holocaust, WWII and Vietnam Veterans and
Ford's Theatre.
In Wyoming there is the beautiful Yellowstone
National Park.
And for the young and the young at heart, one of
the most popular places to visit is, of course, Disneyland.
About the Author
David Dutton helps people find the coolest places to
visit in the world. If you are planning a trip then check out www.CoolestPlacesToVisit.com.
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