Currier Museum of Art
The collection moves from Renaissance painting to modern sculpture, while the Zimmerman and Kalil houses make domestic architecture part of the museum.
United States: places and wildlife — page 14
Browse the published Explore collection for United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Strawbery Banke Museum
Four centuries of neighborhood life survive on the Portsmouth waterfront
SEE Science Center
A vast LEGO Millyard, electricity, forces, light, and biology exhibits connect playful experiments to the city’s industrial setting.
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
Aircraft, spacecraft engineering, astronomy, and the stories of Christa McAuliffe and Alan Shepard connect local biography to exploration.
New Hampshire Historical Society
The Granite State explains itself through objects, archives, and a landmark building
Wright Museum of World War II
Vehicles, uniforms, advertising, household objects, and changing exhibitions examine how war reorganized work and daily life.
Canterbury Shaker Village
Meetinghouses, dwellings, workshops, gardens, furniture, music, and water-powered systems reveal a community designed around order and shared labor.
Aviation Museum of New Hampshire
Aircraft, engines, models, oral histories, and the original Manchester airport terminal connect barnstorming to modern aerospace.
American Independence Center
The Ladd-Gilman house, original documents, furniture, and community programs connect national independence to Exeter’s political networks.
New Hampshire Telephone Museum
Switchboards and handsets turn communication history into a tactile system
Hood Museum of Art
Indigenous, African, European, American, and contemporary works support close study rather than a single encyclopedic march.
Museum of the White Mountains
The White Mountains are interpreted as culture, science, and contested landscape
Millyard Museum
Manchester’s brick mills explain both industrial power and immigrant labor
Children’s Museum of New Hampshire
Play spaces turn regional ecology and everyday systems into experiments
New England Ski Museum
Equipment, racing, trail development, fashion, and mountain culture show how winter travel became sport and regional economy.
USS Albacore Museum
An experimental submarine reveals how hull design changed underwater speed
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
Indigenous cultures are presented through living traditions rather than a vanished past
The Fort at No. 4
A reconstructed frontier settlement interprets colonial conflict and survival
Seacoast Science Center
Gulf of Maine life is interpreted beside the tide pools that sustain it
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
An artist’s home, studios, gardens, and sculpture form one designed landscape
Moffatt-Ladd House & Garden
A merchant house connects Revolution, trade, enslavement, and a terraced garden
John Paul Jones House
A Georgian house opens into Portsmouth history beyond its famous lodger
Warner House
The oldest urban brick house in northern New England preserves remarkable murals
Franklin Pierce Homestead
A president’s boyhood home frames ambition, party politics, and rural privilege
Robert Frost Farm Historic Site
Farm fields and stone walls restore the working landscape behind Frost’s poems
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion
A rambling waterfront mansion preserves New Hampshire’s royal-government world
Fort Constitution Historic Site
Portsmouth Harbor fortifications occupy the site of a pivotal 1774 raid
Fort Stark State Historic Site
Coastal artillery, a small visitor center, gun emplacements, and an unmarked path show twentieth-century defense as landscape engineering.
Weeks State Park
A mountaintop estate links conservation politics with a panoramic fire tower
Historic Harrisville
A preserved mill village shows waterpower as an entire community system
Mount Washington Cog Railway
Rack railway engineering climbs directly into Mount Washington weather
Franconia Notch State Park
A mountain pass concentrates cliffs, lakes, trails, and transportation history
Crawford Notch State Park
Railroad, avalanche history, and high cliffs share a White Mountain gateway
Monadnock State Park
Several steep routes cross hardwood forest, open ledges, fire history, and a broad summit visible across New England.
Odiorne Point State Park
Tide pools, maritime forest, bicycle paths, Fort Dearborn remains, and the science center reveal layered coastal ecology and defense.
Pawtuckaway State Park
A ring dike landscape combines boulder fields, lake, marsh, and low mountains
Bear Brook State Park
New Hampshire’s largest developed state park spreads across forests and ponds
Hampton Beach State Park
Ocean swimming, dunes, concerts, fishing, and a busy boardwalk show recreation at New Hampshire’s most urban beach.
Lake Umbagog State Park
Island campsites, broad water, loon habitat, river inflows, and distant mountains create a quieter and more self-reliant park experience.
Pisgah State Park
A vast southern forest protects ponds, ridges, and former settlement traces
Cardigan Mountain State Park
The West Ridge Trail climbs through forest to open slabs and a summit with views across central New Hampshire.
Miller State Park
An auto road and hiking trails reach a fire tower with views toward Mount Monadnock, Boston, and the Wapack range.
White Lake State Park
A sandy beach, forested shore, camping, paddling, and a lake loop make this a classic but finite summer landscape.
Rhododendron State Park
A rare northern stand of giant rhododendron blooms beneath hardwood forest
Flume Gorge
Waterfalls, glacial boulders, covered bridges, and close granite walls turn a short loop into a sequence of White Mountain geology.
Lost River Gorge & Boulder Caves
Boardwalks, waterfalls, giant boulders, and optional squeezes through named caves reveal a landscape built by frost and collapse.
Polar Caves Park
Stairs, ladders, narrow passages, animal exhibits, and forest walks trace how continental ice rearranged the hillside.
Diana’s Baths
A short forest approach reaches a broad sequence of falls whose gentle appearance changes dramatically with water level.