H. H. Bennett Studio
An 1875 studio, darkroom, cameras, stereographs, stop-action experiments, and Indigenous portrait histories reveal how images created a tourism landscape.
United States: places and wildlife — page 51
Browse the published Explore collection for United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Stonefield
A recreated farm village, agricultural machinery collection, and Governor Nelson Dewey estate connect soil, technology, markets, household work, and rural politics.
Madeline Island Museum
Ojibwe homeland, treaty history, fur trade, fishing, missions, tourism, and island life meet in a museum whose oldest stories are still living.
First Capitol
The first territorial legislature met here in 1836, where small frame buildings expose improvised government, land power, lobbying, and a capital that quickly moved.
Aztalan State Park
Reconstructed platform mounds and palisade sections mark a large Indigenous settlement occupied between roughly 1000 and 1300 CE beside the Crawfish River.
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Sea caves, lighthouses, old-growth forest, beaches, and open-water crossings make this Lake Superior archipelago magnificent—and operationally serious.
Devil’s Lake State Park
Steep talus trails, purple Baraboo quartzite, beaches, climbing routes, and glacial geology make Wisconsin’s busiest state park worth an early start.
Peninsula State Park
Eight miles of Green Bay coast, Eagle Bluff Lighthouse, forest trails, beaches, camping, and a high observation tower make this Door County’s essential park.
Copper Falls State Park
The Bad River and Tyler Forks tumble through a deep northern gorge where CCC stonework, hemlock forest, and the Doughboys Trail frame Copper and Brownstone falls.
Wyalusing State Park
High bluffs, effigy mounds, hardwood forest, caves, and broad river views overlook one of the Upper Mississippi’s most consequential confluences.
Interstate State Park
Wisconsin’s oldest state park preserves basalt cliffs, giant potholes, and St. Croix River views opposite Minnesota’s companion park.
Newport State Park
Eleven miles of Lake Michigan shore, backpack campsites, boreal plants, and International Dark Sky status define Wisconsin’s only formally designated wilderness park.
Rock Island State Park
Two ferry crossings lead to limestone shore, walk-in camping, a vast stone boathouse, and Wisconsin’s oldest lighthouse on a roadless Lake Michigan island.
Perrot State Park
Brady’s Bluff, Trempealeau Mountain, oak savanna, wetlands, and archaeological earthworks reveal the Upper Mississippi as habitat and cultural corridor.
Kohler-Andrae State Park
Boardwalks cross active and stabilized dunes to a long beach, pine forest, and rare interdunal habitat on Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan shore.
Kettle Moraine State Forest — Southern Unit
Kettles, ridges, lakes, oak forest, prairie, and long trail systems spread across a noncontiguous state forest formed along the edge of the Green Bay ice lobe.
Cave of the Mounds
Guided walks descend past flowstone, stalactites, fossils, and crystal-lined chambers discovered beneath a quarry in 1939.
Horicon Marsh
State and federal wildlife areas protect tens of thousands of wetland acres where geese, ducks, cranes, pelicans, rails, and muskrats shift with water and season.
Parfrey’s Glen
Wisconsin’s first State Natural Area protects a narrow, mossy gorge where a cold stream, fallen rock, and flood damage keep reshaping the route.
Cave Point County Park
Lake Michigan waves strike undercut Niagara Escarpment cliffs, creating caves, blowholes, ice formations, and a deceptively exposed shoreline.
Big Manitou Falls
The Black River drops 165 feet through Pattison State Park, carrying tannin-stained water past basalt, forest, and accessible overlooks.
Ice Age National Scenic Trail
Moraines, kettles, eskers, outwash, forests, farms, and towns form a statewide trail whose disconnected segments demand careful trip design.
Elroy–Sparta State Trail
A 32.5-mile crushed-limestone route links five towns, wetlands, farms, and hand-cut railroad tunnels through the Driftless edge.
Glacial Drumlin State Trail
Nearly fifty miles connect Waukesha and Cottage Grove through drumlins, wetlands, farmland, small towns, pavement, limestone, and one on-road gap.
Hank Aaron State Trail
A mostly paved east–west route links Lake Michigan, the Menomonee Valley, Harley-Davidson, American Family Field, State Fair Park, and western neighborhoods.
Mountain-Bay State Trail
A crushed-stone rail trail crosses farms, forests, the Eau Claire River, and small communities between Marathon and Brown counties.
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Prairie, perennial borders, roses, herbs, water gardens, a Thai pavilion, and a conservatory make plant design legible in every season.
Boerner Botanical Gardens
Rose terraces, peonies, herbs, annual displays, perennial borders, and wooded parkland show nearly a century of Milwaukee County horticulture.
Green Bay Botanical Garden
Display gardens, native plants, children’s landscapes, woodland, and winter events show what thrives in northeastern Wisconsin’s climate.
Rotary Botanical Gardens
Twenty acres surround a spring-fed pond with Japanese, Italian, French, English, woodland, prairie, and seasonal display gardens.
Bookworm Gardens
More than seventy book-inspired spaces pair plants, play, sculpture, reading, and sensory discovery across a compact family garden.
Milwaukee County Zoo
Large mammals, primates, birds, reptiles, aquatic life, and conservation programs occupy a wooded campus west of downtown Milwaukee.
Henry Vilas Zoo
Lions, primates, polar bears, reptiles, birds, and children’s habitats fill a compact admission-free zoo woven into Vilas Park.
NEW Zoo & Adventure Park
Animals from Wisconsin and around the world occupy a forested campus where a separate adventure park adds climbing, zip lines, and a fire tower.
Racine Zoo
Giraffes, rhinos, primates, cats, birds, and native species share a walkable lakefront campus with unusually broad water views.
International Crane Foundation
Fifteen crane species, restored prairie, wetland, research, and international conservation turn a wildlife center into a global lesson in coexistence.
Karner Blue Butterfly
A tiny endangered butterfly depends completely on wild lupine as a caterpillar and on frequently disturbed, flower-rich barrens throughout its life cycle.
Fassett’s Locoweed
A globally rare Wisconsin endemic survives where periodic lake-level changes expose open sand before shrubs and trees can close in.
Lake Sturgeon
An armor-plated fish can live for more than a century, migrating from Lake Winnebago into rocky rivers for a brief, spectacular spring spawn.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
A free encyclopedic collection moves from ancient objects and Asian art to European painting, African sculpture, textiles, photography, and Minnesota modernism.
Walker Art Center
Rotating galleries, moving-image work, performance, design, and the adjoining sculpture garden make the Walker a place for active interpretation, not passive coverage.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Fossils, human biology, weather, engineering, Mississippi River ecology, and a giant-screen theater turn scientific claims into things visitors can test and compare.
Minnesota History Center
Immigration, Dakota and Ojibwe history, weather, work, popular culture, and changing exhibitions make the state’s past feel layered rather than settled.
Mill City Museum
Built inside the Washburn A Mill ruins, this museum explains how wheat, waterpower, railroads, workers, and corporate scale made Minneapolis a milling capital.
American Swedish Institute
The 1908 Turnblad Mansion and modern Nelson Cultural Center connect Swedish American history with Nordic craft, food, design, language, and contemporary identity.
Weisman Art Museum
Frank Gehry’s stainless-steel landmark holds American modernism, ceramics, Korean furniture, Native art, and changing university exhibitions above the Mississippi.
Bell Museum
Historic wildlife dioramas, living animals, geology, evolution, and a digital planetarium connect Minnesota ecosystems with planetary time.
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Painting, photography, prints, and sculpture explore oceans, rivers, labor, migration, leisure, and ecology from a low riverside museum in Winona.