New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
Formal gardens, conservatories, woodland paths, vegetable displays, and long reservoir views make a year-round horticultural campus.
Massachusetts, United States: places and wildlife — page 4
Browse the published Explore collection for Massachusetts, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Compact display gardens, woodland edges, greenhouses, classes, and changing art focus on plants that thrive in the Berkshires.
Heritage Museums & Gardens
Hydrangeas, rhododendrons, woodland paths, a historic carousel, automobiles, folk art, and family play share a hundred-acre Cape Cod site.
Naumkeag
A shingled Berkshire house and thirty years of garden collaboration produced the Blue Steps, Chinese Garden, terraces, and mountain views.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Monuments, ponds, wooded hills, horticultural collections, bird habitat, and views from Washington Tower make burial landscape and public garden inseparable.
Bridge of Flowers
A narrow bridge over the Deerfield River carries layered perennial plantings between Shelburne Falls and Buckland.
New England Aquarium
A four-story Caribbean reef, penguin colony, marine mammals, touch habitats, research stories, and harbor setting make ocean systems visible at city scale.
Franklin Park Zoo
Gorillas, lions, giraffes, tropical habitats, barn animals, and conservation programs spread across seventy-two acres in Franklin Park.
Stone Zoo
Snow leopards, black bears, flamingos, gibbons, and North American habitats occupy a walkable site near the Middlesex Fells.
Buttonwood Park Zoo
Asian elephants, red pandas, seals, farm animals, and regional wildlife occupy a compact historic zoo within New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park.
EcoTarium
Interactive science galleries, planetarium shows, native-animal habitats, trails, and a seasonal train make a hybrid discovery museum and small zoo.
Southwick’s Zoo
More than eight hundred animals, wooded habitats, bird areas, rides, and conservation programs spread across a large family-operated campus.
Common Loon
Minnesota’s state bird is a superb underwater hunter whose haunting calls carry across northern lakes—but whose nest can fail after one careless wake.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
This large striped butterfly, South Carolina’s state butterfly, moves between tree canopies, flowers, puddles, and host plants.
Diamondback terrapin
Pale spotted skin, a patterned shell, and a life between salt and fresh water distinguish Maryland’s official state reptile.
Baltimore checkerspot
Black wings checked with cream and orange identify a wet-meadow butterfly whose official status contrasts with its rarity in Maryland.
Baltimore oriole
Maryland’s orange-and-black state bird whistles from leafy edges and suspends a woven pouch nest near a branch tip.
Atlantic blue crab
Paddle-shaped rear legs, blue claws, and a life tied to brackish Chesapeake water distinguish Maryland’s state crustacean.
Striped bass
Seven or eight continuous dark stripes mark a silvery predator that uses tidal rivers as nurseries and the coast as a highway.
Black-eyed Susan
Rough-haired stems and golden rays around a raised brown center make Maryland’s state flower a familiar open-ground wildflower.
White oak
Maryland’s state tree supports insects and wildlife; rounded leaf lobes and pale bark reward a slower look in mature woodland.
Brook Trout
Follow this jewel-colored char from shaded headwaters to Adirondack ponds, where water quality shapes its future.
Common Snapping Turtle
A rugged freshwater turtle is easiest to notice when it leaves the water to nest, not while it lies hidden below.
Sugar Maple
Recognize New York's state tree by more than its color: bark, paired buds, and leaf shape tell the whole story.