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• Connecticut Art Trail - New Haven
  Fourteen world-class museums and historic sites throughout Connecticut and the lively communities in which they reside.
• Connecticut Freedom Trail - Hartford
  Included on the trail are buildings reported to have been used on the Underground Railroad, sites associated with the Amistad case of 1839-1842, and other structures that represent the concept of freedom.
• The Discovery Museum - Bridgeport
  Seeks to enhance public understanding of the science and technology by providing instructive experiences encouraging participant interaction with hands-on physical science exhibits, Planetarium programs, the Challenger Learning Center and various other educational programs.
• Family Fun Trail - Essex, Old Lyme, Groton, New London, Norwich, Mystic
  Treat your family to a new adventure, explore these seven, fun trail museums.
• Foxwoods Resort Casino
  World-class gaming facility with over 7,400 slots, hundreds of table games, three hotels, variety of restaurants, specialty shops, 1,500-seat showroom hosting headline entertainment and live boxing.
• Lake Compounce Theme Park - Bristol
  New England's Family Theme Park has more than 50 thrilling rides and attractions for the entire family to enjoy, including the Splash Harbor Water Park and Boulder Dash. Voted the number one wooden roller coaster in the world.
• Mystic Seaport - Mystic
  Nation's leading maritime museum, offering programs and activities for all ages, including historic tall ships, a planetarium, a working shipyard and fun, educational exhibits.
• Mohegan Sun - Uncasville
  Entertainment complex featuring two casinos with nearly 300 table games and over 6,200 slot machines. Highlights include the Shops at Mohegan Sun, Wolf Den, world-class entertainment in cabaret or the arena and a first-class hotel and spa.
• Visit Connecticut
  Website provided by Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

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• Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor
  Located on the rugged coast of Maine, Acadia National Park encompasses over 47,000 acres of granite-domed mountains, woodlands, lakes and ponds, and ocean shoreline.
• Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company - Bar Harbor
  Features several distinct whale watching, sightseeing, light house and nature trips which sail daily throughout the summer season.
• Big Adventure Center - Bethel
  Family entertainment center with an extensive laser-tag arena, indoor rock climbing, bowling, arcade, snack bar, 18 hole miniature golf and two water slides.
• Funtown Splashtown USA - Saco
  Home of Maine's only wooden roller coaster Excalibur, Northern New England's largest vertical thrill ride Dragon's Descent, New England's longest and tallest log flume ride Thunder Falls and family fun activities provides something for everyone.
• Ogunquit Museum of American Art - Ogunquit
  Dubbed "The most beautiful little museum in the world" is surrounded by three acres of landscaped grounds, with a reflecting pool and sculpture gardens.
• Maine Windjammer Cruises^® - Camden
  Authentic turn-of-the-century coastal cargo schooners, Grace Bailey & Mercantile, have been lovingly restored and recognized as National Landmarks, promised to make your Maine windjammer cruise a pleasant, comfortable, and fulfilling experience.
• Seacoast Fun/Snow Park - North Windham
  Located in the stunning Lakes Region of Southern Maine, Seacoast Snowpark in Windham is just minutes away from Portland or Lewiston/Auburn. This beautiful amusement park is home to fantastic winter fun for the whole family!
• York's Wild Kingdom - York
  With exotic animals from around the world, also offers a variety of family rides, paddle boats, an 18 hole miniature golf course, a petting zoo, scenic picnic grounds and even a Haunted House.

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• Arthur M. Sackler Museum - Cambridge
  Among its treasures are the world's finest collections of archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as outstanding Chinese bronzes, ceremonial ancient weapons, and Buddhist cave-temple sculpture; Chinese and Korean ceramics; and Japanese woodblock prints, calligraphy, narrative paintings, and lacquer boxes.
• Berkshire Scenic Railway - Lenox
  Entertaining tourist train rides over 10 miles of track between Lenox and Stockbridge. The museum continued to connect with the free trolley allowing connections to other Berkshire area attractions from the museum's excursion trains.
• Boston Children's Museum - Boston
  Imaginative, interactive exhibits that combine learning and fun: Japanese House, Climbing the Walls, Science Playground, ZoomZone, AIRPlay, and PlaySpace (just for babies and toddlers).
• Faneuil Hall - Boston
  For over 250 years, the marketplace has played an integral role in the life of Boston's residents. With more than 100 finest shops and carts, plus the Bull Market - the world's first "fleet" of wholly unique pushcarts. Over 40 eateries and an infinite combination of choices in the Quincy Market Colonade, one of the most visited food halls in the world.
• The Freedom Trail - Boston
  Wind your way through the same narrow streets Ben Franklin once walked. Re-live the mayhem of the Boston Tea Party. A 2.5 mile red-brick walking trail that leads you to 16 nationally significant historic sites, every one an authentic American treasure.
• Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston
  For more than a half century, the ICA has presented contemporary art in all media—visual arts, film, and video, performance and literature—and created educational programs that encourage an appreciation for contemporary culture.
• Museum of Science - Boston
  Featuring IMAX - the world's largest film format is projected onto a five-story-tall IMAX® Dome screen, it wraps audiences in larger-than-life images of flora, fauna, and faraway places. Also offers a variety of "hands-on, minds-on" activity stations allow visitors to experience the scientific process by asking questions, formulating hypotheses, performing experiments, examining evidence, and drawing conclusions.
• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame - Springfield
  The world's only Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Mass., is one of the most technically advanced and architecturally distinctive museums in the world.
• New England Aquarium - Boston
  Designed with the intention of providing an underwater experience for the visitor and of being a cultural institution that would reconnect Boston to its waterfront. The Giant Ocean Tank, opened in 1970 that was, at the time, the largest circular, salt water tank in the world to the new Matthew and Marcia Simons IMAX®, the only 3D theatre in Boston.
• Plimoth Plantation - Plymouth
  Plimoth Plantation is Plymouth as it was in the 17th century: it is a centuries-old Wampanoag homesite. Talk with costumed role players who portray the Plymouth colonists (popularly known as the "Pilgrims") going about their daily lives in this small, re-created coastal village.

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• Canterbury Shaker Village - Canterbury
  Learn about the fascinating history of the Canterbury Shakers through guided tours, self-guided buildings and exhibits, and visits with our skilled artisans as they create traditional Shaker-style products such as traditional oval boxes, brooms, and textiles.
• Christa McAuliffe Planetarium - Concord
  Amazing astronomical adventures in New England's most technologically advanced planetarium theater – participate in a rocket-making workshop – make a comet – land the space shuttle – find cool space toys in Celestial Treasures gift shop – look through a telescope at the rings of Saturn or sunspots on our very own star.
• Franconia Notch State Park - Franconia/Lincoln
  A spectacular mountain pass traversed by a unique parkway which extends from the Flume Gorge at the south to Echo Lake at the north. Franconia Notch was the home of the famous Old Man of the Mountain, the same "Great Stone Face" immortalized by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Daniel Webster.
• Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum - Warner
  A fascinating journey into the world of the American Indian. Learn how these cultures lived in harmony with all of nature. Guided tours take you through 12,000 years of history, with over 1,000 artifacts on display representing native material culture of yeaterday and today.
• The Mount Washington Cog Railway - Mount Washington
  A ride up Mount Washington on the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway remains, as it has for well over a century, an exciting and unforgettable experience. Some days the view from the summit of Mount Washington spans four states, Québec, and the Atlantic Ocean, limited only by the curvature of the Earth.
• Santa's Village - Jefferson
  The magic of childhood, the joy and excitement of Christmas morning! Fun rides featuring Antique Cars, bumper cars, carousel, ferris wheel and the Yule Log Flume, among others. All rides shows, and activities are included in one low admission price.
• Six Gun City and Fort Splash Waterpark - Jefferson
  Take a quick trip and dip on the Tomahawk Run Waterslide, a shorter run down the Cheyenne Falls Children's Waterslide, or simply relax and play in our very own Fort Splash wading pool! Surrounded by the majestic mountain peaks of the Presidential Range, Six Gun City is proving that all is not quiet on the Old Western Front.
• Story Land - Glen
  In the beautiful White Mountains, and that means that green space, trees, and scenic views are important features of the park, which sits on 35 acres of hilly terrain. The rides and attractions are built into the natural features of the landscape.
• Whale's Tale Waterpark - North Lincoln
  A splashing good time awaits you. Streak down the speed slides, twist through the flume slides, or splash down the 360 foot tube ride with clean, clear filtered water. Ride the big waves or relax in the gentle ones at the shallow end. No need to worry about sand or salt.

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• Adventureland - Narragansett
  The perfect destination on your visit to beautiful Narragansett, Rhode Island. Spend an entire afternoon testing your skills in out batting cages, racing your friends and family on our brand new, state-of-the-art go-karts, soaking and squirting your "enemies" on our bumper boats, or relax on our 18 hole nautical themed mini-golf course.
• Atlantic Beach Park - Misquamicut
  An old-fashioned charm that characterized beach recreational areas of years gone by, including a carousel with antique band organ, kiddie amusement rides, bumper cars, game room, ice cream and much much more.
• Fort Adams - Newport
  A short drive or a water taxi ride across Newport Harbor stands the largest coastal fortification in the United States. Visit this engineering and architectural masterpiece to see where the soldiers lived, enter the casemates, explore the tunnel system, and climb the bastions for breathtaking views.
• International Tennis Hall of Fame - Newport
  Site of the first U.S. National Championships in 1881, was founded by tennis innovator James Van Alen in 1954 as "a shrine to the ideals of the game." The Tennis Hall of Fame was officially sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association in 1954 and was recognized by the International Tennis Federation in 1986.
• Museum of Primitive Art and Culture - Peace Dale
  Founded in 1892, South County's oldest museum houses more than 15,000 archaeological and ethnological objects from around the world. Changing exhibits in the period Southwest Mission-style gallery explore two million years of world culture...and more!
• Museum of Yachting - Newport
  Dedicated to preserving the culture of yachting by fostering education and enjoyment of its history through the presentation of vessels, artifacts, literature, events and regattas. The Museum explores the many ways in which yachting demonstrates human achievement in the arts, technology and design.
• Newport Mansions - Newport
  Here you will find a world of exceptional elegance and inspiration in architecture, art, interior design and landscapes. Explore the eleven properties, representing more than 250 years of social and architectural history in the city that was America's First Resort.
• The Norman Bird Sanctuary - Middletown
  A 300+ acre wildlife refuge offering over 7 miles of hiking trails. Visitors can enjoy a leisurely stroll through the woods or hike to the top of Hanging Rock to a breathtaking view of the ocean and surrounding areas.
• Roger Williams Park Zoo - Providence
  The third oldest zoo in the country, has entertained and delighted Rhode Islanders since its opening in 1872. Its beautiful Victorian buildings have been home to many legendary animals. In 1986, the zoo became the first zoological park in New England to receive accreditation from the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) - now known as the American Zoological Association (AZA).

• Adams Farm - Wilmington
  take a ride on one of USA Today’s top 10 great sleigh rides. Offering year round public activities such as Vermont Sleigh Rides, Fudge Fondue Nights, Evening Hayrides and Bonfire Parties, Halloween Bonfire Parties, Corn Maze Fun, plus interactive agricultural experiences for the whole family.
• Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Factory Tour - Waterbury
  check out the famous ice cream factory! Their 30-minute guided tours are educational, fun & a great activity for the whole family. Tour includes a mooo-vie, a bird’s eye view of the production room and a sample of the day!
• Bromley Mountain - Peru
  America’s longest Alpine Slide, Vermont’s largest waterslide, minigolf, trampoline things, Pig Dog’s fun park for toddlers, and a multifaced climbing wall. For skiing, it has 43 classic New England trails and glades with a variety of terrain that is seldom seen elsewhere. It is perfect for skiers & riders of all ability levels from first timers to those who crave the gravity-adrenaline rush.
• Cabot Cheese - Montpelier
  view their award-winning cheese as it's being made. Learn a ton about cheesemaking, and Cabot's history - not to mention a bit about Vermont agriculture. Following the tour you're invited to nibble our many varieties of cheeses, including the World's Best Cheddar and Best Flavored Cheddar.
• Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center - Burlington
  discover the ecology, culture, history, and opportunities the Lake Champlain Basin has to offer! Guest of all ages will enjoy our 100 hands-on interactive exhibits and over 60 species of live fish, amphibians, and reptiles.
• Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium - St. Johnsbury
  northern New England's premiere museum of natural history with more than 160,000 objects. From historical, natural sciences and world cultures, an exceptional example of Victorian collecting and exhibiting.
• Harpoon Brewery - Windsor
  offer free in-depth brewery tours of the Windsor Brewery at 3:00 pm on Friday and Saturday. They request that children do not participate in the tour to allow room for those 21 years and older. The tour includes a walk through the brewery (depending on Brewery Production at the time of the tour) and complimentary samples of Harpoon beer.
• Lake Champlain Maritime Museum - Vergennes
  Through nautical exploration, hands-on exhibits and learning adventures for all ages, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum brings to life the stories of Lake Champlain and its people. Discover why Lake Champlain is considered the most historic body of water in North America.
• Northern Lights - Burlington
  when there’s no true destination in mind, we suggest the elegantly adorned cruise ship. With daily lunch cruises, narrated afternoon trips, weekend brunch cruises and entertainment filled dinner cruises, the Northern Lights has something for everyone.
• Shelburne Museum - Shelburne
  located in Vermont's scenic Lake Champlain valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the nation's finest, most diverse, and unconventional museums of art and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds.