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Narrated steam train ride between Hill City and Keystone in the Black Hills, on the original line built to serve the area's mines and mills; runs mid-May to December.
Checked 2026-11-06
Free museum in a World War II hangar at Dover Air Force Base, with airlift and air refueling aircraft inside and on the ramp, some open to walk through.
Checked 2026-11-05
Guided one-hour walk through Airstream's travel trailer plant in Jackson Center, Ohio, by advance reservation, plus a small paid museum of vintage trailers. Closed-toe shoes required.
Checked 2026-10-26
Aviation museum on Lake Hood, the world's largest seaplane base, with four hangars of aircraft, a restoration hangar and a tower for watching seaplanes.
Checked 2026-11-05
Museum in Bozeman, Montana, tracing 4,000 years of computing and robotics history; open Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., paid admission.
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Museum of machine tools and American manufacturing in Windsor, Vermont, open seven days in summer and weekdays in winter.
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State park with a viewing site and interpretive signs for the 585-foot brick stack left by the Anaconda Copper Company smelter, which closed in 1980. You see the stack from a distance only.
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Museum of the cargo of a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856 and was dug out of a Kansas field in 1988, with videos and a lab where staff restore artifacts.
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Downtown Phoenix science center with four levels of hands-on exhibits and live demonstrations, plus a planetarium dome and a giant-screen theater. Open Tuesday to Sunday.
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Aviation and military history museum in Fayetteville, open Tuesday to Saturday, with no advance tickets needed and ramps to every building.
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City-run museum on the Arkansas River where you tour the World War II submarine USS Razorback and the tugboat USS Hoga, a Pearl Harbor veteran.
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Free state-park museum in Smackover on the 1920s south Arkansas oil boom, with working oil field equipment outdoors and a boomtown street indoors.
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Museum in Neil Armstrong’s home town with his Gemini VIII spacecraft, spacesuits and an Apollo 11 moon rock, plus a 30-minute documentary shown in a dome room.
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Automobile museum in Auburn, Indiana, open daily, with a two-museum ticket for the National Auto and Truck Museum nearby and docent-led tours booked two weeks ahead.
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B Reactor on the Hanford Site, part of Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Interior tours are suspended; free 2026 bus tours pass the reactor from outside the fence.
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Museum of Baltimore industry in an 1860s oyster cannery on the harbor, with working machines such as a Linotype and docent-led tours on weekends.
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Iowa-class battleship moored on the Camden waterfront, open as a museum for self-guided routes and a daily guided tour; ladders and steep steps on the full routes.
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University of Arizona research site near Tucson with a self-paced, app-guided walk through the glass habitat and wilderness areas, plus optional guided lung, library and birding tours.
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Museum in Lead, South Dakota, with a guided walk through a recreated Homestake gold-mine drift and displays of mining equipment. Closed for the season until May 2027.
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Glass factory in Milton, West Virginia with a free observation deck and museum, plus paid guided tours of the hot shop for ages 14 and up. Tours must be booked ahead.
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Ice cream maker's home creamery in Brenham with a self-guided company museum and a window onto the filling line from an observation deck, weekdays only.
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BMW’s only North American museum, the Zentrum, is free on weekdays; the Spartanburg plant also runs a 75-minute guided walking tour that is booked online.
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Visitor attraction at Paine Field with gallery exhibits and a Sky Deck, plus an 80-minute guided tour of the Boeing Everett factory with a balcony view of 777/777X assembly. Tour has a height minimum.
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Free museum in downtown Los Alamos run by the national laboratory, with exhibits on the Manhattan Project and current lab research, two short films and a hands-on space for children.
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Guitar maker in Bend, Oregon, with a pro shop open weekdays and a roughly 45-minute factory tour at 1 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday for up to 10 people. Booking ahead is encouraged.
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Free two-hour walking tours of King County's Brightwater wastewater plant near Woodinville, for ages 9 and up. Individuals register for scheduled tours; groups of 10 to 25 book ahead.
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Free open-house Sundays at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with facility tours and science shows on set dates in summer. Adult visitors need REAL ID-compliant identification.
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Free seasonal visitor center at the Buffalo Bill Dam near Cody, with a short film and a walk across the top of the dam. Public tours of the dam and power plant are not offered.
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All-day bus tour of Portland's drinking-water source: a well field, old-growth forest, Bull Run Lake and two dams. Runs June to September; $35 a seat.
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Free self-guided tour of the Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth: a walkway above the printing floor, a film and two floors of exhibits. Open Tuesday to Friday with airport-style screening.
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Free 45-minute guided tour of US paper currency production from a walkway above the printing floor in Washington, DC, with an exhibit center. Weekdays; tickets can be reserved ahead.
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Natural history and culture museum on the University of Washington campus, with dinosaur and other fossils and working labs you can look into. Closed Mondays.
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Large railroad museum in Old Sacramento with restored locomotives and cars, open daily, including a daily docent tour of the Transcontinental Railroad story.
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National Historic Landmark of 25 original Shaker buildings with guided tours that include a laundry building, mill pond and Shaker inventions; tours run May to November, trails open year-round.
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Organic and specialty cheese factory near Plain that gives factory tours on days and times you arrange by phone; accessible; the store is open Monday to Saturday.
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Reserved 45-minute walking tour through the Celestial Seasonings tea factory in Boulder, with a free tea bar in the Tour Center.
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Oakland-hills science center with exhibits, a planetarium and three telescopes. Hosts the NASA Ames Visitor Center exhibit; free telescope viewings Friday and Saturday nights.
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Railroad museum in Cheyenne's 1886 Union Pacific depot, a National Historic Landmark, with local and transcontinental railroad history and a narrow gauge model railroad.
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Downtown Chicago exhibition center on the city's buildings and design, and the starting point for its architecture walking, bus and river-cruise tours.
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Historic public observatory in Cincinnati. Its main building and big telescope are closed for renovation until about summer 2027, but ticketed programs such as a guided Planet Walk continue.
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Planetarium in downtown Salt Lake City with free hands-on space exhibits, plus ticketed shows in the dome and IMAX theatres. Open seven days a week.
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Railyard museum in Golden with more than 100 historic locomotives and cars, a working restoration roundhouse and a depot with a model railroad.
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Astoria museum on Columbia River shipping and Coast Guard rescue, with a lightship visitors can board and a small 3D theater. Open daily.
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Museum of computing in Mountain View with a docent-led Revolution tour and scheduled demos of working IBM 1401, PDP-1 and RAMAC 350 machines. Open Wednesday to Sunday.
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Computer history museum in Hunt Valley, Maryland, visited by appointment on guided tours, usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:30 a.m.; collection includes an Apple I.
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Volunteer-run museum of working telephone switching equipment in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, open Sundays with guided tours on demand and a suggested donation.
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Large hands-on science museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio, with tickets sold online or at the door. Open days and hours are posted on its calendar page.
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Space museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, with space-race artifacts, a dome theater, planetarium and a live rocket-science show; free docent tours on some Saturdays.
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Long Island aerospace museum with 75 air and spacecraft in eight galleries, including an Apollo lunar module, plus a planetarium.
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Aviation museum in Minot with WWII and civilian aircraft. Closed for regular admission until May 2027; guided WWII hangar tours are offered by reservation.
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Free museum at CDC headquarters in Atlanta with a permanent history of CDC and changing public-health exhibitions. Reservations and government photo ID are required, and weekdays only.
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Six-unit National Park Service park in and around Dayton on the Wright brothers and Paul Laurence Dunbar: a downtown interpretive center and cycle shop, Huffman Prairie, and partner museums.
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Boston's main sewage treatment plant on Deer Island: free guided tours on Tuesdays and Fridays, April to November (reservation and security form required), plus a public perimeter path.
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Agricultural museum in Dover with indoor galleries of farm equipment and a recreated rural village of restored buildings, open Wednesday to Sunday with a posted admission price.
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Museum in two 1940s Delta Air Lines hangars at Atlanta airport, with the first Boeing 747-400, the Spirit of Delta 767 and Delta history exhibits. Parts close on private-event days.
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Large natural history and science museum in Denver, open 363 days a year, with a planetarium, a theater and rotating exhibitions.
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Boise's hands-on science center, with in-house exhibits and a rotating traveling exhibition. Open daily; tickets can be reserved online.
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Hands-on science museum in Uptown Charlotte with an indoor rainforest, live science shows, animal encounters and an IMAX dome theatre. Open daily; ticket prices are not on the page.
Checked 2026-11-06
Research and conservation centre in Duke Forest where visitors see lemurs on prepaid reservation tours. The General Tour runs weekly May to September and on a few weekends the rest of the year.
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An 1877 wooden-car funicular up Pittsburgh's Mount Washington, still carrying passengers, with a small history museum and observation deck at the top station.
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Two-hour guided bus tours of the Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr surface coal mines near Gillette, Wyoming, Monday to Friday from Memorial Day through September, $15 a person.
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Winter estates of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford in Fort Myers, with Edison's restored botanical research laboratory, a museum with antique cars, historic homes and gardens.
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Museum in Syracuse's 1850 weighlock building on the Erie Canal, with canal history exhibits and a pay-what-you-wish door.
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Museum in the first reactor that made usable electricity from nuclear power, in eastern Idaho. Free guided tours, daily from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.
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Hands-on science, technology, engineering, art and math center in Old Town Albuquerque with over 250 interactive exhibits and activities. Open every day.
Checked 2026-11-06
Science center on the Arkansas River in Wichita, with hands-on exhibits on aviation design, Kansas geography and health, a dome theater and an outdoor playscape.
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Free interpretive center in the 1815 Philadelphia water-pumping complex on the Schuylkill, with exhibits, a mussel hatchery and guided tours for groups.
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Aviation museum in two hangars at Fargo, with aircraft from a Wright brothers flyer to a Predator drone, many still able to fly. Open Tuesday to Saturday.
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Working woolen mill in Faribault, Minnesota with a 75-minute tour on Fridays and Saturdays, from raw wool through carding, spinning and weaving. Reservations required; ages 8 and up.
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Visitor center at Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah with dam and hydropower exhibits, open daily in the 2026 season. Guided dam tours have ended; part of the walkway can be viewed.
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Museum at Paine Field in Everett (renamed from Flying Heritage Collection) with restored 20th-century military aircraft and vehicles. Free with a waiver; open Thursday to Saturday.
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Bureau of Reclamation education center at Folsom Dam in California with exhibits on the American River watershed; programs run by reservation, Tuesday to Friday.
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The 1904 Detroit factory where the Model T was developed, now a museum with more than 65 early cars, Henry Ford's office and guided tours; open Wednesday to Sunday.
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Self-paced tour inside Ford's working Dearborn Truck Plant: theaters, a living roof and an elevated walkway over the F-150 line. Closed Nov 9-29, 2026 and Sundays.
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A dam in Montana with an Interpretive Center (dinosaurs, wildlife, dam history) open Thursday to Saturday through November, and winter powerhouse tours by appointment with REAL ID or a passport.
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Free maritime museum on Tacoma's waterfront with maritime exhibits, hands-on activities and a Heritage Boat Shop, open Thursday to Sunday; docent group tours by advance notice.
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630-foot stainless-steel arch on the St. Louis riverfront with a free museum underneath and a paid five-seat tram ride to the top.
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Car museum on a 90-acre campus in Hickory Corners with many exhibit buildings; hours are longer from April to October, and some buildings close for winter.
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A Colorado River dam above Lake Powell near Page, with a daily visitor center; the guided dam tour is currently listed as closed.
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Visitor center at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge with exhibits on the bridge's history, science and engineering, the original 1933 test tower, and a shop. Open daily.
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National park site where the first transcontinental railroad was joined in 1869, with a visitor center, exhibits and a theater, plus outdoor trails and the last-spike site.
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State-park observatory in the hills above the Columbia River. Its solar and evening telescope shows are cancelled for now; the grounds are open daily for self-guided visits.
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A concrete dam on the Columbia River with a free visitor center, free plant tours on weekends in season, and a nightly laser show in summer.
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Lakefront science museum in Cleveland whose general admission includes the NASA Glenn Visitor Center. Open Tuesday to Sunday, closed on home Browns game days.
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A radio astronomy observatory in West Virginia with a free Science Center and exhibit hall, a paid bus tour of the grounds, and behind-the-scenes tours by registration.
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Large Chicago science museum (formerly Museum of Science and Industry) with exhibits including a captured German submarine and a coal mine, open daily.
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A city-run observatory on Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles with free exhibits and evening public telescopes, and ticketed live planetarium shows. Closed Mondays.
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Planetarium inside the Grout Museum of History and Science in Waterloo, the only public planetarium in northeast Iowa; a hands-on Imaginarium science gallery is due to open there December 15, 2026.
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The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, kept in a 75,000-gallon conservation tank in North Charleston, with excavation finds and interactive exhibits; open to the public on weekends.
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National park site with fossil exhibits at the Thousand Springs Visitor Center and overlooks and trails above the Pliocene fossil beds. Free entry.
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Site of the original DuPont gunpowder works on the Brandywine, with a restored powder yard, daily demonstrations, the du Pont family residence and a patent-model exhibition.
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Free 30-minute tour of the Hammond's candy factory in Denver, Monday to Saturday, with reservations required at least 24 hours ahead. Wheelchair accessible.
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Ticketed 90-minute walking tour of Harley-Davidson's engine plant in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, on weekdays. The York, Pennsylvania plant tour is temporarily closed.
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Harley-Davidson's York, Pennsylvania motorcycle assembly plant. The company's page lists its public factory tours as temporarily closed, with no reopening date.
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Pre-booked guided tour of Herr's snack factory in Nottingham, Pennsylvania, offered Monday to Wednesday in groups of up to 15, about an hour long.
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Waterfront museum on the Bristol site of the Herreshoff yacht builders, with the Hall of Boats and the designers' model room. Open May to December; tours by appointment in the off-season.
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Free Air Force aviation museum near Ogden with more than 70 aircraft indoors and in an outdoor air park, open Tuesday to Saturday.
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Aviation museum at San Carlos Airport on the San Francisco Peninsula with aircraft, helicopters and flight history, open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Working ship locks between Lake Washington and Puget Sound, with a visitor center, fish ladder and botanical garden. Free one-hour tours run Wednesday to Sunday, May to September.
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Museum ships in Baltimore's Inner Harbor: the 1854 sloop-of-war USS Constellation, the submarine USS Torsk and a Coast Guard cutter, all boarded with one pass.
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Fourteen-acre open-air history park in San Jose with original and replica buildings, a print shop, a trolley barn and trolley rides, run by History San José. Buildings open weekends.
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The 1930s concrete arch dam on the Colorado River, with tunnel, powerplant and visitor center tours daily.
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Preserved 1771-1883 iron-making village in Pennsylvania, with the furnace, cast house and iron master's mansion to walk through. Free; visitor center open Wednesday to Sunday.
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Natural history and science museum in Hermann Park, Houston, with four floors of permanent halls; the butterfly center, planetarium and giant-screen theatre cost extra.
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Museum of vintage unlimited hydroplane racing boats in Kent, including Gold Cup winners, with restorations in progress. Open Tuesday to Saturday for a small admission fee.
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Free guided tram tour through Hyundai's Montgomery, Alabama assembly plant, about 75 to 90 minutes, by reservation only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, plus Thursday evenings in season.
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Hilo science center with a planetarium and exhibit hall on Polynesian navigation and the Maunakea astronomy, set in native gardens on the university campus.
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Large railway museum in Union, Illinois where one ticket covers unlimited rides on electric, steam and diesel trains and streetcars on operating days; open on scheduled days April to October.
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Racing museum inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval, with Indy 500 winning cars and optional bus track tours that include a lap and a stop at the bricks.
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Nonprofit science museum near the Mississippi-Louisiana line that hosts the NASA Stennis Visitor Center. Self-guided space and Earth science exhibits, open Wednesday to Saturday.
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Free company museum at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara with exhibits on chip design, a clean-room display and Intel history; open weekdays, no reservation for self-guided visits.
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Museum on the Hudson built around the aircraft carrier Intrepid, with the Space Shuttle Enterprise, a Concorde, the submarine Growler and dozens of aircraft; two guided tours are sold separately.
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NASA's robotic spacecraft lab near Pasadena. Free tours by advance reservation with photo ID rules; the free ticketed Explore JPL open house last ran Oct. 10-11, 2026.
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Steep cable railway above Johnstown that carries passengers and cars up the hillside, with an observation deck at the top. Reopened in September 2026 after rehabilitation.
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Historic 1861 pretzel bakery in Lititz offering a 25-minute tour with a hands-on pretzel-twisting lesson, the original ovens and a bakery store.
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History center in Oak Ridge on the Manhattan Project's K-25 uranium enrichment plant, open daily, with paid admission and bus parking for groups.
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Five floors of hands-on exhibits on Pittsburgh's North Shore, with a planetarium, giant-screen cinema and the USS Requin submarine; timed tickets. Formerly Carnegie Science Center.
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Aviation museum in Wichita, with indoor exhibits, aircraft on an outdoor ramp and a volunteer restoration shop. Closed Thursdays.
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Abandoned copper-mining mill town inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, with open exhibits and a park visitor center in the old school, staffed in summer only.
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NASA's Kennedy Space Center visitor complex in Florida: Space Shuttle Atlantis, the Rocket Garden, and a bus tour past launch sites to the Saturn V Center, plus add-on guided tours.
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Hands-on science center in downtown Louisville with self-guided exhibits and a four-story digital theater; open seven days a week.
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National park preserving Keweenaw copper-mining history through partners; the park itself runs the free Calumet Visitor Center, while mine and museum tours are at partner Heritage Sites.
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State park around a former railroad viaduct that a tornado partly destroyed in 2003. A walkway runs 600 feet out on the remaining towers, ending in a glass-floored platform.
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Hands-on science center inside the Washington Pavilion in downtown Sioux Falls, with more than 100 interactive exhibits, a quarry exhibit and a CineDome and planetarium add-on.
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Visitor center of a mountaintop observatory west of Tucson, with guided daytime telescope tours and a nightly stargazing program. Both are paid and reservations are recommended.
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Art glass factory in operation since 1888 with a weekday-and-Saturday 11 a.m. public tour, booked by phone; hot glass is not part of the tour for now.
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Goat and cow cheese plant in Malone with a visitor center and self-guided viewing-window tour of the cheese make, weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; confirm with the maker before you go.
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State park around an iron mine that worked from 1882 to 1962; a 90-minute guided tour goes 2,341 feet down and rides a train to the deepest workings. Summer season only.
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Nashville museum of European and unusual vehicles, mainly microcars and prototypes, with weekend demonstrations and a paid guided tour of the storage vault.
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UC Berkeley’s hands-on science center in the Berkeley hills, with exhibits, a planetarium and a 3D theater, open Wednesday to Sunday.
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Two ways into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: the Discovery Center exhibit hall (walk in, weekdays noon to 4 p.m.) and the lab's own guided site tour, which needs registration and badging.
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Car museum in Tacoma with four floors of exhibits on more than 250 vehicles spanning a century of automotive history, plus racing simulators sold as an add-on.
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Science center in Liberty State Park, Jersey City, with hands-on exhibits and a planetarium. Opening days and hours change by date, so check the posted hours before going.
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Research observatory on Mount Hamilton above San Jose. Free to visit: the Shane Telescope gallery and grounds are open while the historic Main Building is closed for storm repairs.
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A gravitational-wave detector in eastern Washington: a free drop-in exhibit hall Tuesday to Friday, and free guided tours (register first) on second Saturdays, March to November.
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Gravitational-wave detector in Louisiana with a hands-on exhibit hall and guided tours of its control room, open to the public one Saturday a month.
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Two-hour narrated boat cruises on the Erie Canal in Lockport that pass through the historic double locks; the 2026 season ended October 16.
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Aviation museum at Houston's Ellington Airport with historic aircraft in two hangars, hands-on STEM exhibits and flight simulators. Open Tuesday to Sunday.
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History museum campus in Los Alamos with Manhattan Project and Cold War exhibits, historic buildings and a guided walking tour of the historic district.
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Planetarium and science galleries inside the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in downtown Baton Rouge, with a 60-foot domed theater and sky shows on the hour. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
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Downtown Louisville museum with a guided walk through the baseball bat factory, where bats are made on the days it is open, plus exhibits and a souvenir mini bat.
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Guided 30 to 45 minute tour of a Louisville pottery factory that has made stoneware since 1815. Tours run Thursday and Friday twice a day; a paint-your-own studio is also on site.
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National park in a former mill city, with a working 1920s weave room where power looms run in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, plus canal walkways and a ranger-guided turbine tour.
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A historic observatory on Mars Hill in Flagstaff with daytime programs and evening stargazing. Check its own site; tourism pages disagree on Monday hours.
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Maritime history museum on a 20-acre Kennebec River campus in Bath, with a historic wooden-shipbuilding yard and, in season, a trolley and boat tour that looks at Bath Iron Works.
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Heritage railroad on Portland, Maine's waterfront: a narrated 40-minute round trip behind a vintage locomotive along Casco Bay, May to October, with holiday event trains in winter.
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Guided one-hour tour of the Kern Studios float workshop in New Orleans where parade floats and props are built, with a short film and a slice of king cake.
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Hartford home of Mark Twain, shown by timed guided tour, plus galleries where the only surviving Paige typesetting machine is on view.
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One-hour guided tour of the Martin guitar factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, weekdays by advance online ticket, plus a free museum in the visitor center. Tickets cannot be bought at the factory.
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Hands-on science center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor with three floors of exhibits, a planetarium and a demo stage; IMAX films cost $5 extra. Closed Mondays.
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Air and space museum in Concord with exhibit galleries, a Science Playground, an outdoor Mercury-Redstone rocket and a planetarium with timed shows at an added price.
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West Texas research observatory with a visitors center, daytime tours of two large telescopes and evening star parties under very dark skies. Tickets are required and sell out in busy seasons.
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Downtown Birmingham science center with hands-on exhibit halls, a shark tank, fossils, a children's area and an IMAX dome; open Wednesday to Sunday.
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Privately run meteorite impact site in northern Arizona with rim lookouts, a free guided rim tour, a Discovery Center, a 4D theater and an Apollo capsule.
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Hands-on science center in Midtown Detroit with interactive exhibit floors and theater experiences; open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Museum built into the ruins of a flour mill on the Mississippi in Minneapolis, with a Flour Tower elevator show, baking and water labs, a rooftop deck and occasional guided Millers' Tours.
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Computing-history museum in Roswell, Georgia, with exhibits on Apple, supercomputers and the computer timeline; open Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., paid admission.
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Science and innovation museum in Schenectady, open to the public on weekends from September to May; weekdays are for scheduled schools and groups.
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A 40-acre museum in Jackson with a crossroads town of moved historic buildings, an agricultural aviation museum, farm and forestry displays and demonstrations of a cotton gin and sawmill.
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Museum on the Moffett Field base beside Hangar One on the history of naval aviation, airships and flight research, open Wednesday to Saturday. Adults must show photo ID at the gate.
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Museum in Lake Union Park on Seattle's history and local invention, with galleries on maritime Seattle, the Bezos Center for Innovation and a clean-energy exhibit through January 2027.
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Former gold mine near Cripple Creek, Colorado, known for guided tours down a vertical shaft. Its website now says the mine is closed for the foreseeable future.
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University of Arizona observatory near the summit of Mount Lemmon running a five-hour evening stargazing program with dinner and large public telescopes; tickets only, ages 7 and up.
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Expert-led hikes, a summit climb and field seminars on Mount St. Helens that mix geology, history and ecology, run by a science and education nonprofit. Registration is per event.
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Rack-and-pinion railway opened in 1869 that climbs Mount Washington from a base station in Bretton Woods; summit trips in autumn, shorter winter trips to Waumbek Station.
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Working mountaintop weather station on the summit of Mount Washington: guided tours of the station and a hands-on weather museum, in summer only.
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A historic observatory above Pasadena with a free dome gallery for the 100-inch telescope, open daily; two-hour weekend tours run in spring and summer, not winter.
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Transportation and industry museum in Wasilla on 20 acres, with Alaska Railroad locomotives, vintage aircraft and an outdoor train yard.
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Playable video game museum in downtown Oakland where visitors play games on original hardware; open Wednesday to Sunday, $20 general admission, free for members.
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Hands-on science center in the River Market district of Little Rock, with galleries, daily science and Tesla coil shows, and animal programs.
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Art museum in Tacoma with a working glassblowing studio, the Hot Shop, where live demonstrations run all day. Its galleries are closed for renovation until December 12, 2026.
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Free museum of radio and electronic technology in a converted 1920s school in Huntington, West Virginia, open Saturday and Sunday afternoons all year.
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Large hands-on science museum on the Charles River in Boston, open daily, with a planetarium, giant-screen Omni theater and 4-D films sold as add-ons.
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Hands-on science center in northern Tampa across from the University of South Florida, open daily, with one planetarium show in the ticket and free parking.
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Museum on the Montana State University campus with a dinosaur complex, a mounted T. rex, Montana history exhibits and the Taylor Planetarium. Open daily; tickets sold on site only.
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Maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut with historic ships, a Seaport Village and a shipyard; hours change by season, and in late fall it is open Thursday to Sunday.
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Free NASA visitor center in Greenbelt, Maryland with exhibits and a rocket garden, open Thursday to Saturday. Facility tours are for pre-registered groups, booked through 2026.
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Free NASA visitor center on Virginia's Eastern Shore with rocket and Earth science exhibits, open Thursday to Saturday. Facility tours are for pre-registered groups only.
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Washington museum of architecture, engineering and construction in a historic building. The Great Hall is free, exhibitions are ticketed, and free docent tours run when guides are available.
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Single-marque car museum in Bowling Green with more than 70 Corvettes, self-guided or guided twice daily; GM assembly plant tours run only on limited dates.
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A U.S. national laboratory for renewable energy in Golden, Colorado. In-person staff-led campus tours are for U.S. citizens 18 and older, by arrangement; virtual tours are open to the public.
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Free federal museum in Silver Spring on the history of medicine and military medicine, from Civil War specimens to pathology and human-body exhibits.
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Albuquerque museum on the Atomic Age, from the Manhattan Project to peaceful nuclear technology, with indoor galleries, a nine-acre outdoor aircraft and missile park, and an artifact center.
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Free Navy museum in Keyport on undersea operations, technology, research and salvage, with exhibits that include a remotely operated vehicle. Open Wednesday to Monday.
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Preserved copper-era short-line railroad in East Ely with its depot, engine house and shops, visited on a guided walking tour or with museum admission.
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Railroad museum in Carson City, open Thursday to Monday, with $10 adult admission and free entry for children 17 and under.
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Windsor Locks aviation museum with aircraft and engines in three hangars, a restoration hangar, a Pratt & Whitney exhibit and flight simulators. Outdoor aircraft close for winter.
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Hands-on science museum in Queens with exhibits, a science playground and, as extras, a 2D/3D theater and Rocket Park mini golf; open Wednesday to Sunday.
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Museum of New York's subway and bus history inside a decommissioned Brooklyn subway station, open Wednesday to Sunday; advance tickets recommended.
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Free waterfront walk beside Brooklyn's Newtown Creek wastewater plant, open dawn to dusk. Plant digester tours are not confirmed; the Visitor Center is for booked education groups.
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Free visitors center beside the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant in Lewiston, New York, with more than 50 hands-on exhibits on electricity and hydropower. Open daily, free parking.
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Aircraft museum in McMinnville, Oregon, home of the Hughes Flying Boat known as the Spruce Goose, with an SR-71, an A-10 and a space pavilion.
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Museum in the former Spencer Shops railroad repair yard, with a 1924 roundhouse and turntable, a 1905 back shop and locomotives; a train ride can be added to admission.
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Working railway museum in Snoqualmie with a free historic depot, a train shed exhibit hall of historic railway equipment, and weekend excursion trains on 5.5 miles of track.
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Historic ships at Lake Union Park: the 1904 Lightship Swiftsure, the tug Arthur Foss and the fishing boat Tordenskjold. Open by appointment or when volunteers are aboard, usually Sundays.
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The public visitor center of a US atmospheric-science research lab in the Boulder foothills: free atmospheric-science exhibits, an outdoor Weather Trail and a free guided noon tour twice a week.
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Aviation museum at Oakland airport with historic aircraft, including a Short Solent flying boat, open Wednesday to Sunday; tickets are sold on site.
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Exhibit space at a leading oceanographic institution, with a replica of the Alvin sphere, a Titanic exhibit and shark-tagging displays, plus summer guided campus tours.
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Pawtucket mill from 1793 where water-powered cotton spinning began in America; ranger tours and a visitor station run on a seasonal schedule through November 28, 2026.
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Science museum on Portland's waterfront with hands-on halls and labs, a planetarium, and tours of a retired US Navy diesel-electric submarine, the USS Blueback.
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Portland museum housing historic locomotives, exhibits and a machine shop, open Thursday to Sunday afternoons, with seasonal weekend train rides.
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Four floors of hands-on science exhibits and a film theater in Orlando; closed Wednesdays except school breaks. Online tickets cost less than walk-up tickets.
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Maine museum of early aircraft, cars, motorcycles and engines with restoration experts at work, a Science and Industry Center for kids, and demonstrations of machines running.
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Alameda museum where one admission gives unlimited free play on over 100 pinball machines in five rooms, arranged by era, with exhibits on the machines' history and technology.
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Hands-on science center beside Seattle Center, with exhibits, a planetarium, a laser dome and an IMAX theater. Open Wednesday to Sunday; ticket prices change by date.
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Caltech's Palomar Observatory on Palomar Mountain: a daily self-guided visitor center and dome gallery, plus weekend guided tours of the 200-inch Hale Telescope in season.
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Free national park around the Passaic River falls and the waterpower system that ran Paterson's mills; open grounds and ranger-guided walking tours as staffing allows.
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Naval museum on Charleston Harbor with the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, the destroyer USS Laffey, 27 historic aircraft and a three-acre Vietnam Experience.
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Museum of Maine logging in Patten with a film, a Lombard steam log hauler, a blacksmith shop and outbuildings including a sawmill; open in summer only, Tuesday to Sunday.
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Aviation museum in WWII hangars on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, with more than 50 aircraft. Reached by free shuttle from the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center unless you have base access.
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Free National Park Service aviation museum at Pearson Field in Vancouver, with five early 20th-century airplanes, murals and exhibit panels. Open Tuesday to Saturday.
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Original Pendleton wool mill in Oregon, where jacquard blankets are woven. The company says tours are offered; times are by phone or a request form.
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Museum in Midland on the history, geology and technology of oil in the Permian Basin, with petroleum, mineral and art galleries and an outdoor Oil Patch.
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Nature and science museum in downtown Dallas with several levels of exhibits; timed-entry tickets, open daily. Ticket prices are not stated.
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Science museum in downtown Miami with exhibitions, an aquarium and a planetarium in one ticket; open every day, with prices that change by date.
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Large Tucson aviation museum with indoor hangars and an 80-acre outdoor aircraft display, plus a paid 45-minute tram tour of the outdoor collection.
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University of Oregon observatory east of Bend with public telescope nights on two weekends a month in summer; closed to the public until further notice as of September 2026.
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Non-profit anthracite coal mine in Ashland, Pennsylvania, open since 1962: a 35 to 40 minute mine-car tour into the mountain, plus a 30 minute narrow-gauge steam train ride.
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Former NASA tracking station in the North Carolina mountains, now a research and education campus with radio telescopes, a space museum and mineral galleries open for self-guided or guided tours.
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Free U.S. Navy museum beside the Bremerton ferry terminal and shipyard, with exhibits on the Navy in the Pacific Northwest. Open Monday and Wednesday to Sunday.
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National park in the former Pullman railcar factory and company town on Chicago's far south side, with a visitor center in the clock-tower building and a daily ranger tour.
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Museum and hands-on science center in Davenport, Iowa, with science and natural world galleries and a giant screen theater. Open daily except a few holidays.
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One-hour underground tour of the Queen copper mine in Bisbee, by original mine train, with hard hat and lamp. Five departures a day, reservations required.
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Guided tour of a 19th-century Keweenaw copper mine: a steam hoist above ground, then about a mile on foot through a 2,000-foot tunnel into workings from the 1860s.
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University research farm near Fairbanks that houses muskoxen, reindeer and wood bison and offers one-hour outdoor tours, ticketed in winter and daily in summer.
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Cheese shop at a Central Point creamery with windows into the cheddar production room, where cheese is made two to three mornings a week. Open daily.
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Former Minuteman missile control site near Cooperstown with guided tours down to the launch control center; a second launch site can be viewed from above.
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Greenville science center, open to the public on school-year Thursday and Friday afternoons and for Friday night planetarium shows, with a natural science hall, living history farm and dinosaur trail.
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Free science center in Forest Park, St. Louis, with hands-on exhibits, a planetarium, an OMNIMAX theater and flight simulators; films, shows and special exhibitions are ticketed.
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Aircraft and spacecraft museum in Balboa Park, open seven days a week, with docent tours of the restoration area on three weekdays.
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Free museum inside San Francisco's working cable car powerhouse and barn, with historic cars, mechanical displays and a view of the machinery that pulls the cables.
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The park's historic ships are moved off Hyde Street Pier during its rebuild. The park says it may open a ship at Mare Island, Vallejo, weekends noon to 4; another page says no boarding.
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Small free museum across from the Ferry Building on the history of San Francisco's streetcars and cable cars, with a replica 1911 streetcar motorman's platform. Open Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 5.
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Free visitor center in Lead, South Dakota, telling the story of the Homestake mine and the underground physics lab; seasonal hoistroom and trolley tours run from it.
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National Park Service reconstruction of a 1640s ironworks with working waterwheels; grounds open all year, buildings and tours May to October.
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Free bus tours of the Savannah River Site, a Department of Energy nuclear complex, on set Thursdays and Tuesdays. Limited seats; US citizens 18 or older with ID and a Social Security number.
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Downtown Shreveport science center with exhibit galleries, a children's museum and a planetarium on one admission. Open Wednesday to Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday.
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Science center in downtown Des Moines with permanent exhibits, a Makers Studio and a planetarium. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
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Hands-on science center inside a historic power plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with 200-plus exhibits, live demonstrations and a planetarium included in admission.
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Hands-on science center on three floors of Kansas City's Union Station, with more than 300 indoor and outdoor exhibits. Tickets are required; prices are not stated on the pages checked.
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Science museum in Richmond's historic Broad Street Station, with exhibitions, live science demonstrations and a dome theatre. Open Tuesday to Sunday.
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Large science museum in Oklahoma City with hands-on exhibits, an aviation wing and a planetarium included in admission. Open daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
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Free aviation museum and library inside San Francisco International Airport's International Terminal, before security. Open daily 10 to 4:30, no airline ticket needed.
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A Bureau of Reclamation dam near Redding with a visitor center and free guided dam and powerplant tours, offered Friday through Tuesday only.
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Underground tour of a real silver mine in Wallace, Idaho, led by a retired hard-rock miner, with a trolley ride through town. Open May to mid-October.
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Watch glassblowers at work in Simon Pearce's river-powered studio in Quechee, Vermont. The page lists daily glassblowing hours; it does not state a fee or booking.
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Seattle City Light's Skagit hydro project in the North Cascades: summer boat tours on Diablo Lake about the dams and powerhouses, plus year-round walks at Newhalem.
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Free guided on-site tours of SLAC's particle accelerator and research facilities, held on two Fridays a month with online registration. Ages 12 and up, government photo ID for adults.
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Free park and visitor center beside the Soo Locks, where ships pass between Lake Superior and the lower lakes, with displays and a 30-minute film. Open May to October.
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Restored 1860s gold-mining town in Fremont County with historic buildings, a gift shop, gold panning and trails, open summer to mid-October.
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NASA Johnson Space Center's official visitor center in Houston, with space exhibits and open-air tram tours onto the working NASA campus, including Historic Mission Control.
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Free museum in downtown Austin, Minnesota about the SPAM brand, with a timeline, interactive games and staff-led tours on request.
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Bellingham museum of the history of electricity, radio and technology, with a live MegaZapper Electrical Show on weekends. Open Wednesday to Sunday.
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Preserved WWII Liberty ship at Pier 35, San Francisco, open daily all year with the whole ship, engine room to flying bridge, open to visitors.
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Museum in western Oklahoma named for astronaut Thomas Stafford, with 75,000 square feet of aircraft, rocket engines and space exhibits, and an aerospace playground outside.
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Former Scranton railyard run by the National Park Service, with steam and diesel locomotives, museum exhibits and ticketed train rides. Entry is free.
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Former zinc mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey. A guided walking tour covers a museum, about 1,300 feet of level mine tunnel and a fluorescent mineral museum; weekends only in the cooler months.
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Museum 650 feet down an active salt mine in Hutchinson, Kansas. A self-paced 2.5-hour tour with a dark ride, plus a combo with a guided shuttle and a lantern hike.
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Aviation and space museum between Lincoln and Omaha with Cold War aircraft such as the SR-71, daily docent tours and no reservation needed. Closed Tuesdays in winter hours.
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Free guided catwalk tour of Subaru's Lafayette car plant on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 1 p.m. Reservation only, minimum age 10, a long walk with 250 stair steps.
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Nature center with a daytime observatory visit and reserved nighttime star viewing through telescopes in Sunriver, Central Oregon.
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Science museum north of Atlanta with galleries on minerals, fossils, transportation and space, a fossil dig, gem panning and a planetarium; open daily.
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Heritage railroad museum in Chattanooga: a 65-minute narrated train ride through a Civil War-era tunnel, a working turntable demonstration and a visit to the active restoration shop.
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Hands-on museum of electricity and science in a lakeside mansion in Minneapolis, with exhibits on Benjamin Franklin and Mary Shelley. Open Tuesday to Sunday; tickets sold online.
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Free-to-enter wooden boat museum on Lake Union with a boatshop and historic small craft on the docks, open Wednesday to Sunday; boat rentals are paused until March 2027.
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Hands-on science center in downtown Reno with 67,000 square feet of galleries on science, technology, engineering, art and invention. Closed Mondays except in summer and on holidays.
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History museum in Omaha's 1931 Union Station, with a trackside gallery of passenger cars, a caboose and a locomotive, a model railroad and a restored streetcar.
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Large science museum in Philadelphia with three floors of interactive exhibits, a planetarium, live science shows and a rooftop observatory.
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Large indoor museum in Dearborn on American invention and industry, with vehicles, aircraft and machines; open daily. Greenfield Village and the Rouge Factory Tour are separate tickets.
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Maritime museum in Newport News with the USS Monitor Center, where recovered pieces of the ironclad, including its turret and steam engine, are conserved in a lab you can look into from a platform.
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Aviation and space museum beside Seattle's Boeing Field, open daily with general admission to indoor galleries and an outdoor aviation pavilion.
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Museum in Richland on the Mid-Columbia region's history, science and nature, from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, with indoor galleries and outdoor spaces. Open Tuesday to Saturday.
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Hands-on technology and science center in downtown San Jose with over 100 experiences and an educational IMAX film included in general admission; hours vary by season.
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Edison's West Orange laboratory complex, with the library, machine shops and a Black Maria film studio replica, plus ticketed tours of his Glenmont home. Entry fee $15 for ages 16 and up.
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Aviation museum inside Hangar B, a World War II wooden airship hangar on the Oregon coast; open daily in winter, with guided tours for groups of 10 or more.
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Dairy cooperative visitor center in Tillamook, Oregon, with a free self-guided route past a farm exhibit hall and a viewing gallery over the cheese-making floor.
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Preserved Titan II missile site south of Tucson with a guided 45-minute tour down into the silo and launch control center, and a cheaper self-guided surface tour.
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Weekly guided tour of Trek's Waterloo, Wisconsin headquarters and factory floor, including the custom paint studio. Wednesdays at 10 a.m., about an hour, ages 4 and up.
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Huntsville's space museum and the official visitor center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, with a real Saturn V, an outdoor rocket park and flight simulators.
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Small cheese plant in Fremont with free morning factory tours four days a week, ending with fresh curds. Walk in; groups of 10 or more should schedule.
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Memorial park on Mobile Bay built around the World War II battleship USS Alabama, with the submarine USS Drum, aircraft and other displays; open daily.
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World War II submarine USS Bowfin and three museum galleries at Pearl Harbor, toured on your own with a free audio guide. Open daily; under-4s cannot go aboard.
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Museum in the Charlestown Navy Yard about USS Constitution and the sailors who served on her; the ship itself is visited separately and free, Wednesday to Sunday.
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World War II aircraft carrier moored on North Beach in Corpus Christi, open as a museum with its flight deck, hangar decks, a flight simulator and a 3D theatre.
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Retired aircraft carrier on the San Diego waterfront, open daily with more than 30 restored aircraft, a self-guided audio tour, docent talks and paid flight simulators.
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A 1943 submarine that made six Pacific patrols in World War II, now open daily for self-guided visits at Pier 45 on Fisherman's Wharf, with an optional audio tour.
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Museum ship in Bremerton: a 1950s destroyer restored to her Vietnam War configuration, toured on a self-guided route that includes steep ladders. Winter hours are Wednesday to Sunday.
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Guided tour of a plush-toy factory in Shelburne, Vermont, showing cutting, sewing and stuffing and ending at the bear hospital. Daily, ticketed, with child and senior prices.
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Radio-telescope site in the New Mexico desert with a visitor center, a documentary film and a self-guided walking tour to the base of a dish antenna. Paid daily admission; staff-led tours some days.
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Museum in Hampton that serves as the official visitor center for NASA Langley, with more than 30 historic aircraft, space artifacts and an IMAX theater.
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Military aviation museum at the Nampa airport with a collection of permanent and visiting aircraft. Open Tuesday to Sunday; group tours need two weeks' notice.
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Museum in Boston's Chestnut Hill pumping station, free to walk in, with giant steam pumping engines and ticketed weekend tours that climb two engines and go below.
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Mining museum on a 27-acre campus in Colorado Springs with working steam engines, a walk-through mine drift and gold panning.
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Brick and cheddar maker in Theresa with no tours, but a retail-store viewing area over the make room, open daily; cheese is usually made on weekday mornings.
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Aviation and space museum in a former Lowry Air Force Base hangar in east Denver, with more than 60 aircraft, space artifacts and flight simulators. Open daily.
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Free two-hour bus-and-walking tour of Winnebago's motorhome plant in Forest City, Iowa, run on weekday mornings and midday; phone reservation, minimum age nine.
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National Park Service site on the Outer Banks where the first powered flights were made in 1903, with a visitor center museum, the takeoff marker and a monument on the hill.
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Historic observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, with ticketed guided tours inside the building and the Great Refractor dome, plus free arboretum grounds and trails open daily from sunrise to sunset.
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