This is home to a number of sites and attractions associated with early American history, including Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on Jan. 9, 1935, in this two-room house built by his father and grandfather. The Presleys lived here only two years before tight finances forced them to move.
This historic structure, erected in the early 1700s, housed an influential publishing business and bookstore in the 1800s.
Opened in 1941, this museum, founded by financier Andrew Mellon, has some 116,000 works of Western art dating from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
This statue of the iconic jazz composer, pianist and band leader, who died in 1974, was sculpted by Robert Graham and dedicated in 1997.
Opened in 1993, this museum is devoted to the history of the Holocaust, the state-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
The current building was designed by Robert Mills and constructed over a 33-year period beginning in 1836. It is the oldest departmental building in Washington.
Created in 1959 by Jose de Creeft (1884-1982), this bronze sculpture features characters from the 1865 Lewis Carroll story‚ "Alice in Wonderland."
Built in 1729, this was where some 5,000 colonists gathered on December 16, 1773, for a protest that culminated that night in the Boston Tea Party.
Built in Boston and launched in 1797, this is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat. In the early 1800s, the 44-gun Constitution fought Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa.
Cape May's World War II Lookout Tower, also known as Fire Control Tower No. 23, was built in 1942. It was one of 15 towers that served as part of a harbor defense system known as Fort Miles.
This monument, titled the "Spirit of Freedom," honors the more than 200,000 African-American soldiers who fought during the Civil War.
This site contains the known remains of more than 400 enslaved and free Africans buried here between 1690 and 1794.
This memorial structure contains the bodies of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd and three of their sons.
Lincoln was born at the home on Feb 12, 1809. A granite-and-marble Beaux Art memorial stands at the spot, containing a "symbolic" birth cabin. The memorial was dedicated in 1911 by President Taft.
This children‚'s museum celebrates businessmen, Olympic medalist and Salem native Alfred Collins Gilbert, who is best known as the creator of the Erector Set.
The first Virginia State Fair & Stock Exhibition was held on Wheeling Island in October 1866. It has since moved twice more before making The Meadow Event Park its new home in September 2009.
It is said that every US President since William Howard Taft has stayed at this hotel. This hotel is the first place Tony Bennett ever sang “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
Built in 1779, it is one of the oldest western stagecoach stops in the USA. Today it offers five guest rooms, all named after the notable figures who have stayed at the tavern.
Recognized as the oldest continuously operating business in Ohio. Opened in 1803, it received its name because early pioneers could not read, so it was given a name that could easily be drawn.
Established in 1911; it was one of the earliest, if not the first, urban reforestation project in the US. Mount Airy Forest is also known for being the largest known park in Cincinnati's park system.
This is the oldest continuously-run tavern in the US. Founded in the late 1700s, it has been under the stewardship of only 6 families & during Prohibition local yachtsmen came for the entertainment.
Built by Henry Lambert in 1872 after his job as President Lincoln’s chef ended with the president’s assassination. By 1880, it was known as one of the most generous hotels west of the Mississippi.
The Mesereau family built this mansion in 1832. It is said to be haunted by Martha Mesereau after she found out that her husband would never return from battling in the Civil War.
Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada. In 1855, entrepreneur James Mason Hutchings & artist Thomas Ayres were the first to tour the area.
Opened in 2005 it is ranked as the most visited state-controlled presidential museum. This museum documents the life of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, & the course of the American Civil War
King's Chapel Burying Ground was founded in 1630 as the first cemetery in the city of Boston. It was Boston's only burial site for 30 years.
In 1918 the Jacksonville Rotary Club came up with a concept to honor the 1200 Floridians who perished in WWI. The city purchased the property and dedicated the park on Christmas Day 1924.
The Florida Theatre originally opened to the public in 1927 as Jacksonville’s 15th largest movie theatre. 1956 Elvis Presley played one if his first headlining concerts on an indoor stage here.
This Fountain opened in 1965 & was known as one of the world’s largest and tallest self-contained fountains of its time. It pumps 3,500 to 6,500 gallons of water per minute reaching a height of 115ft.
