The Detroit Tigers moved into this ballpark in 2000. It seats roughly 41,000 people, has one of the largest scoreboards in sports, and features sculptures of some of the team's greatest players.
Founded in 1957 and named after James Madison, the fourth US President and coauthor of the Constitution, it has been a filming location for the films Paranoid Park and Twilight.
Opened in 1917, the garden houses over 7,000 rose plants of approx. 550 varieties. It's the oldest continuously operating public rose test garden & exemplifies Portland's nickname 'The City of Roses'.
During the 2008 US Presidential Election an estimated 75,000 people, the largest gathering in the entire campaign, gathered here to see Barack Obama. The park has also hosted many Rose Festival events
Founded in 1921, the museum was known as "Detroit's best kept secret." They receive more than 250,000 visitors annually and showcase more than 300 years of Detroit's history.
Founded in 1885, the DIA's collection is among the top 6 in the US. In 2000 the DIA opened the GM Center for African American Art in order to broaden the museum's collection of African American art.
Opened in 1928, the Detroit Fox is one of 5 Fox Theaters across the United States. It was the first movie theater in the world to be constructed with built-in equipment for sound films.
Opened in 1904, the conservatory is open to the public free of charge every day of the year. It is the nation's oldest conservatory and covers more than an acre with a central dome 85 feet high.
The island was landscaped in the 1880s & served as a staging ground by the U.S. military during World War II for a re-enactment of a Pacific island invasion by the Navy and Marine Corps.
Orchestra Hall has been home to the Minnesota Orchestra since 1974. The open glass structure & whimsical blue tubes offer a warm, welcoming ambiance for all concertgoers.
The 1st facility opened in 1917. In 2007 the gates were adjusted to lower the water level of the Mississippi by 2 ft to assist in the recovery efforts of the victims of the I-35W bridge collapse.
Built in 1924, this was originally a grand movie palace. It would later be converted into housing for the U.S. Navy during World War II. It was designated a historic site in 1972 and restored in 2005.
The park preserves & recreates the old town from shortly after the Mexican War of Independence through the Bear Flag Revolt. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
This overlooks the spot where European explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo stepped ashore in 1542 naming the bay San Miguel; explorer Sebastian Vizcaino changed the name to San Diego in 1602.
The theatre opened on December 25, 1929, just two months after the stock market crash. The Fox hosted the premiere of Walt Disney's Song of the South in 1946. Disney himself introduced the picture.
Completed in 1889, it is the working center of Georgia's government. The museum within the Capitol houses extensive collections reflecting the natural & cultural history of Georgia.
Atlanta's only surviving drive-in movie theater, it's been entertaining movie fans since 1949 & shows double-feature first run movies. The theater also features a flea market which is open on weekends
It's the world's largest aquarium housing more than 100,000 animals of 500 different species. The aquarium was built as a gift to the city of Atlanta from Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus in 2001.
The exhibit features cash-processing operations, where millions of dollars are counted, sorted or shredded daily. Check out the automated vault & see the robotic transports that do the heavy lifting.
Developed on the site of a former horse track in 1979, the park attracts approximately 1,000,000 visitors annually & is home to the nationally recognized Miami-Dade Track and Field Team.
The Bell was ordered in 1751 & is one of the most prominent symbols of the Revolutionary War. In 1752 to the dismay of onlookers the bell cracked during testing. Over 2 million visitors come each year
Opened on October 1, 2009, the museum features the life and legacy of Walt Disney. The museum retrofitted and expanded three existing historic buildings on the Presidio’s Main Post.
It's the largest garden of its kind in the US. Offering gorgeous views & a continually changing array of plants it includes several pavilions built using traditional Chinese materials & techniques.
Browse through over 23,000 objects that include African, Asian, European, Oceanic, Aboriginal, among other international art. The museum hosts one of the top 5 US Japanese & Korean Art collections.
The Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department offers guided nature, adventure, and historic tours involving biking, canoeing, snorkeling, hiking, and bird-watching all over the city.
First erected in Segovia, Spain. Centuries later, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst purchased and brought them to America in pieces. Used as a backdrop for weddings, movies, and commercials.
Includes European paintings from the 15th through the early 20th centuries, with special emphasis on northern European art of the Renaissance and baroque periods, including Dutch and Flemish masters.
Ongoing exhibit of jazz photographer Herman Leonard's fantastic black-and-white photographs of legends such as Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra has been so popular that it hasn't changed in years.
Themes vary at the whim of the artist and the gallery owner. You might see a retrospective on baseball or a series of "shadow" photographs in which the images look like faint scraps of ghosts.
Cyrus McCormick, born in 1809, invented the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat in 1831 & played a huge role in settling the Midwest. He is buried here.
