Washington Place
Washington Place was the private home of Queen Liliʻuokalani and later Hawaiʻi’s official governor’s residence.
United States: places and wildlife — page 19
Browse the published Explore collection for United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park
Kealakekua Bay was a major Hawaiian religious and political center long before Captain James Cook arrived, and its steep shores still hold layered histories.
Puʻuloa Petroglyphs
Puʻuloa preserves an extraordinary concentration of cupules, human figures, geometric forms, and family-associated marks cut into pāhoehoe lava.
Puakō Petroglyph Archaeological Preserve
The Puakō preserve contains one of Hawaiʻi Island’s largest concentrations of petroglyphs, including human forms, family groups, circles, and historic-era motifs.
Waikōloa Petroglyph Preserve
The Waikōloa petroglyph field preserves human figures, dots, lines, footprints, and historic inscriptions on exposed pāhoehoe near the coast.
Piʻilanihale Heiau
Piʻilanihale, among the largest heiau in Polynesia, occupies a broad terraced platform inside Kahanu Garden near Hāna.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
The park protects the summits and rift landscapes of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, along with rainforest, lava desert, petroglyphs, coastal sites, and Native Hawaiian cultural places.
Haleakalā National Park
Haleakalā National Park spans the summit depression, cinder cones, alpine shrublands, cloud forest, waterfalls, and the coastal Kīpahulu district.
Waimea Canyon State Park
Waimea Canyon exposes layered lava flows and immense erosion along the island’s western interior, with overlooks that change minute by minute under moving cloud.
Kōkeʻe State Park
Kōkeʻe protects upland forest and a dense trail network above Waimea Canyon and the Nā Pali valleys.
Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park
Nā Pali’s cliffs, beaches, hanging valleys, waterfalls, and old agricultural landscapes form one of Hawaiʻi’s most dramatic and logistically demanding coasts.
Polihale State Park
Polihale feels remote because the final unpaved road and broad dunes separate it from the island’s busier beaches.
Wailua River State Park
The Wailua River corridor joins water travel, royal and religious sites, wet forest, Opaekaʻa Falls, and river recreation on Kauaʻi’s east side.
ʻĪao Valley State Monument
ʻĪao Stream and steep green walls create one of Maui’s most recognizable interiors, centered visually on Kukaʻemoku, often called the ʻĪao Needle.
ʻAkaka Falls State Park
ʻAkaka Falls plunges from Kolekole Stream into an amphitheater cut through the lush Hāmākua coast.
Hāpuna Beach State Recreation Area
Hāpuna’s long crescent, clear water, lava headlands, and open horizon make it a classic Kohala beach, but conditions range from calm swimming to powerful shorebreak.
Kaʻena Point Natural Area Reserve
Kaʻena Point forms Oʻahu’s wild northwestern tip, reached by exposed coastal tracks from Mokulēʻia or Yokohama Bay.
Lēʻahi (Diamond Head)
Lēʻahi formed during a brief explosive eruption that built a broad tuff ring above today’s Waikīkī shoreline.
Maunakea Visitor Information Station
The visitor station sits around 9,200 feet on Maunakea, below the summit observatories and above much of the island’s cloud layer.
Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach
Punaluʻu’s dark sand comes from basalt fragmented and sorted by waves along the Kāʻu coast.
Papakōlea Green Sand Beach
Papakōlea occupies part of Puʻu Mahana, where erosion concentrates green olivine crystals from a volcanic cone into a small, striking beach.
Molokini Crater
Molokini is the emergent rim of a volcanic crater and a protected marine-life conservation district offshore from Maui.
Wailua Falls
Wailua Falls drops over a broad basalt ledge just north of Līhuʻe, often separating into two main streams before filling a deep pool.
Kīlauea Iki Trail
The Kīlauea Iki loop moves from wet ʻōhiʻa forest down the crater wall and across a hardened lava lake still venting heat in places.
Keoneheʻeheʻe (Sliding Sands) Trail
Keoneheʻeheʻe drops from near 10,000 feet into a basin of cinder cones, lava, desert color, and rare alpine life.
Pīpīwai Trail
The Pīpīwai Trail follows ʻOheʻo Gulch upland through mixed forest, bridges, bamboo, and waterfall viewpoints in Haleakalā’s Kīpahulu District.
Kalalau Trail
The Kalalau Trail traces eleven demanding miles of the Nā Pali Coast from Kēʻē to Kalalau, with the first section reaching Hanakāpīʻai.
Awaʻawapuhi Trail
Awaʻawapuhi begins in cool upland forest and drops steadily to a narrow ridge viewpoint over Awaʻawapuhi and Nualolo valleys.
Makapuʻu Point Lighthouse Trail
The Makapuʻu trail rises along Oʻahu’s dry southeast coast to overlooks above a red-roofed 1909 lighthouse.
Waiheʻe Ridge Trail
Waiheʻe Ridge climbs from a gated agricultural road onto a narrow green spine overlooking Waiheʻe Valley and the north Maui coast.
Foster Botanical Garden
Foster began in the nineteenth century and now holds palms, orchids, cycads, exceptional trees, and threatened tropical plants within a compact urban garden.
Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden
Hoʻomaluhia spreads geographically organized tropical collections across 400 acres below the sharply folded Koʻolau range.
Lyon Arboretum
Lyon Arboretum occupies nearly 200 wet acres at the back of Mānoa Valley, with palms, gingers, native Hawaiian plants, ethnobotanical collections, and research facilities.
Limahuli Garden and Preserve
Limahuli occupies a steep North Shore valley where a garden trail interprets Hawaiian plants and land management within a much larger ecological preserve.
Hawaiʻi Tropical Bioreserve & Garden
The garden holds palms, heliconias, orchids, aroids, bromeliads, and towering trees along a paved route through a naturally wet coastal valley.
Honolulu Zoo
Honolulu Zoo occupies 42 acres between Waikīkī and Lēʻahi, with animals from tropical regions, children’s areas, and shaded botanical plantings.
Waikīkī Aquarium
Founded in 1904 beside a living reef, Waikīkī Aquarium focuses on tropical Pacific fishes, corals, giant clams, jellies, monk seals, and Hawaiian marine research.
Maui Ocean Center
Maui Ocean Center presents marine species found in Hawaiian waters, including reef fish, sharks, rays, corals, sea turtles, and deep-water interpretation.
Panaʻewa Rainforest Zoo and Gardens
Panaʻewa presents mammals, birds, reptiles, and extensive plantings on a manageable loop south of Hilo.
Getty Center
European paintings, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, conservation studios, Richard Meier architecture, and Robert Irwin’s Central Garden turn the Getty into a study of how collections are framed.
Getty Villa
Greek, Roman, and Etruscan objects sit within courtyards, gardens, pools, mosaics, and rooms modeled on the Villa dei Papiri.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA ranges from ancient American and Asian art to modern design, film, photography, and Southern California art.
The Broad
The Broad’s collection moves from Pop and Conceptual art to large-scale installations, with the building’s veil wrapping public galleries around visible storage.
California Academy of Sciences
Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium, a four-story rainforest, natural-history halls, and active laboratories make the Academy a scientific campus rather than a single museum.
Exploratorium
The Exploratorium treats visitors as investigators: light, sound, motion, human behavior, weather, and estuary systems become manipulable exhibits.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
SFMOMA combines painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, media art, and a major living wall inside an expanded downtown building.
de Young Museum
The de Young is strongest where American painting, California art, Indigenous arts, African art, Oceanic collections, and textiles challenge a single national story.
Asian Art Museum
Masterworks from across South, Southeast, Central, East, and West Asia share space with contemporary commissions and changing interpretation.