Loading destinations
Loading destinations
Explore Historic Places
Browse historic places by state or historical era.
Showing 91–108 of 167 destinations
Onawa, IA
An Iowa state park on Blue Lake that preserves an 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition stop and normally interprets the journey with a full-size keelboat reproduction.
View Details
Hartford, IL
An Illinois historic site at Camp Dubois interpreting the Corps of Discovery's 1803–1804 winter preparations before the Lewis and Clark Expedition headed west.
View Details
St. Augustine, FL
A museum in the former Excelsior High School preserving more than four centuries of African American history in St. Augustine.
View Details
Little Rock, AR
A nationally significant civil rights landmark where the Little Rock Nine challenged school segregation in 1957 and tested the federal government's commitment to enforce desegregation.
View Details
Robeline, LA
An archaeological landmark where an eighteenth-century Spanish presidio and mission once served as the capital of Spanish Texas amid French, Spanish, and Caddo interaction.
View Details
Abbeville, LA
An Abbeville museum honoring Louisiana veterans through artifacts, military equipment, and stories spanning the colonial era to the present.
View Details
Nevada City, CA
A dramatic Gold Rush landscape where immense hydraulic-mining cliffs, a preserved mining town, and forest trails reveal both the ambition and environmental cost of nineteenth-century mining.
View Details
Fordyce, AR
A compact Civil War battlefield park marking the April 25, 1864 Confederate victory that shattered a Union supply convoy and helped force the abandonment of Camden.
View Details
Coloma, CA
The Coloma site where James W. Marshall’s 1848 gold discovery ignited the California Gold Rush and transformed the American West.
View Details
Atlanta, GA
A National Park Service district preserving the Atlanta places where Martin Luther King, Jr. was born, worshipped, lived, and emerged as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
View Details
Lincoln, MA
A preserved landscape of battlefields, roads, bridges, and historic homes where the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775.
View Details
Little Rock, AR
An immersive museum on Little Rock's historic West Ninth Street preserving and celebrating African American history, culture, entrepreneurship, and achievement in Arkansas.
View Details
Cambridge, MA
America’s pioneering garden cemetery combines nationally significant history, notable monuments, and a richly planted landscape overlooking Greater Boston.
View Details
Haverhill, MA
A hands-on museum tracing the evolution of printing, typography, graphic arts, and communication technology.
View Details
Philadelphia, PA
A Philadelphia museum that traces the American Revolution from its colonial origins through independence and nation-building, highlighted by George Washington's surviving Revolutionary War headquarters tent.
View Details
Natchitoches, LA
A walkable 33-block riverfront district preserving more than three centuries of French, Spanish, Creole, American, and regional history in Louisiana's oldest permanent settlement.
View Details
Atlanta, GA
An immersive Atlanta museum connecting the history of the American Civil Rights Movement with continuing struggles for human rights around the world.
View Details
Fort Worth, TX
The world's only museum devoted to honoring the women whose courage, skill, creativity, and leadership shaped the American West.
View Details