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Mystery Spot - Santa Cruz, CA
This is one of a number of gravitational anomalies that one can visit. As you might imagine, it is a hoax, but such a well-perpetrated one that I highly recommend it if you are anywhere near Santa Cruz.
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Grounds For Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ)
A 35-acre public sculpture park located in Hamilton, NJ. Managable and engaging.
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Panorama Mesdag (the Hague)
Panorama Mesdag, located in the Hague, Holland, is a cylindrical painting, more than 14 meters high and 120 meters in circumference. Visitors stand inside of the painting and see the vista of the sea, the dunes and Scheveningen village as painted in 1881 by one of the most famous painters of the Hague School, Hendrik Willem Mesdag.
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Mercer Museum Guide - Bucks County (PA) Historical Society
Located in Doylestown (Bucks Co.), PA. The Mercer Museum houses 40,000 early American (pre-1850) tools arranged by trade, craft or occupation in small rooms set up like very crowded workshops of various sorts: shoemaking, glass blowing, confectionary, coopering, etc.\n\nClick on the link or go to <http://www.mercermuseum.org/cms/files/MM_GUIDE_4_07_web_ID3306.pdf> for a PDF of the floor plan.
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Maine Solar System Model
Located along a 45 mile stretch of US Highway 1, between Presque Isle and Houlton in Aroostook County Maine, the Maine Solar System Model is a scale model of our solar system. I hope they didn't remove Pluto when it was demoted from planetary status.
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National Museum of Health and Medicine (Washington, D.C.)
A health and medicine museum in operation since 1862. Exhibits often focus on military medicine, and often don't spare the squeamish.
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Hole 'N The Rock (Moab, Utah)
5,000 square foot, fourteen room home carved into sandtone during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
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San Francisco Bay Model
The Bay Model is a three-dimensional hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta areas capable of simulating tides and currents. The Model is over 1.5 acres in size and represents an area from the Pacific Ocean to Sacramento and Stockton, including: the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun Bays and a portion of the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta.
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Musee Mecanique (San Francisco)
A large privately owned collection of antique coin-operated automatic mechanical musical instruments.
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Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art (NYC)
Built by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair, in part as a celebration of the City’s municipal infrastructure, this 9,335 square foot architectural model includes every single building constructed before 1992 in all five boroughs; that is a total of 895,000 individual structures.
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson, AZ)
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one place! Exhibits re-create the natural landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region so realistically you find yourself eye-to-eye with mountain lions, prairie dogs, Gila monsters, and more. Within the Museum grounds, you will see more than 300 animal species and 1,200 kinds of plants. There are almost 2 miles of paths traversing 21 acres of desert.
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Dia:Beacon
A design museum in the Hudson Valley with changing exhibits that often explore the intersection between art, science and mathematics.
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