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The Venetian Pool is a public swimming pool in Coral Gables, created in 1924 from a former coral rock quarry and designed by Phineas Paist with Denman Fink. Fed by spring water from an underground aquifer, it has two waterfalls, cave-like grottoes, a stone bridge and Mediterranean-style loggias and towers.

The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium opened in 1909 in Swope Park, in the south-east of Kansas City, and covers 202 acres. Its African section has elephants, lions, giraffes and cheetahs, Helzberg Penguin Plaza houses four penguin species, and the Sobela Ocean Aquarium, with ocean and reef displays, opened in 2023.

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park covers the southern third of the island of Key Biscayne, south-east of downtown Miami. It includes the Cape Florida Light, a brick lighthouse first built in 1825 and rebuilt in 1846, the oldest standing structure in Greater Miami, along with beaches, nature trails and a site on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

The Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City's River Market shows the cargo of the Arabia, a steamboat that hit a snag and sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The wreck was dug out of a Kansas cornfield in 1988–89, and the museum, opened in 1991, displays tools, dishes and clothing, the boat's stern and a lab where finds are cleaned.

Kansas City Union Station is a Beaux-Arts railway station designed by Jarvis Hunt and opened in 1914. Its Grand Hall has a 95-foot ceiling, three chandeliers and a six-foot clock. After closing in 1985 it was restored and reopened in 1999 with Science City, theaters and exhibition space, and Amtrak trains have stopped here again since 2002.

The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City was dedicated in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial, a 217-foot tower by Harold Van Buren Magonigle. The museum below it, reopened and enlarged in 2006, covers the First World War from its causes to the 1919 peace conference; visitors enter across a glass bridge over a field of 9,000 poppies.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a 34-hectare botanic garden in Coral Gables, just south of Miami, opened in 1938 and named after the plant explorer David Fairchild. Its collections of palms, cycads, flowering trees and vines are laid out around lakes and lawns, and it is home to the American Orchid Society.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum on Oak Street in Kansas City, opened in 1933 in a neoclassical building designed by Wight and Wight. Steven Holl's glass-walled Bloch Building was added on its east side in 2007. The collection covers art from many cultures and periods, with a large Asian section, and the grounds hold a sculpture park.

The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures is a museum on Oak Street in Kansas City, on the University of Missouri–Kansas City campus. It opened in 1982 in a 1911 house, combining Mary Harris Francis's antique toys with Barbara Hall Marshall's fine-scale miniatures, and its collection now holds more than 100,000 objects.

The Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site preserves the limestone house in Kansas City's Roanoke Park area where the painter Thomas Hart Benton lived from 1939 until his death in 1975. Guided tours show the furnished house and the studio in the former carriage house, left with his brushes, paints and a stretched canvas.

Everglades Safari Park is a privately run park on the Tamiami Trail (US 41) at the eastern edge of the Everglades, about 40 km west of downtown Miami. Large airboats seating up to 45 people take visitors on 30 to 40 minute rides through the sawgrass marshes, and the park also stages alligator shows.

The Deering Estate is the former winter home of industrialist Charles Deering on Biscayne Bay in Palmetto Bay, south of Miami. Its 444 acres hold two historic houses shown as museums, the Richmond Cottage (1896) and the Stone House (1922), together with eight native ecosystems where more than 170 bird species have been recorded.

Zoo Miami, officially the Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens, lies in southern Miami-Dade County, southwest of central Miami. Founded in 1948 on Key Biscayne and moved here in 1980, it covers almost 750 acres with 4 miles of walkways and more than 2,000 animals of some 375 species, in habitats themed to regions such as Asia, the Amazon and Australia.

Coral Castle is a group of oolite limestone structures in Homestead, south of Miami, carved by the Latvian immigrant Edward Leedskalnin, who worked on it alone from 1923 until his death in 1951. Blocks weighing several tons form walls, tables, chairs, a crescent moon, a sundial and a nine-ton gate.

City Park is a public park of about 530 hectares in Mid-City New Orleans, larger than Central Park in New York. It holds one of the largest groves of mature live oaks in the world, lagoons, the New Orleans Botanical Garden, the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, the New Orleans Museum of Art and a small amusement park.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum occupies the Old U.S. Mint at the corner of Esplanade Avenue and Decatur Street, a Greek Revival building of 1835 that struck coins until 1909. Part of the Louisiana State Museum, it shows instruments, recordings and photographs from the history of jazz, and its performance hall hosts concerts.

The Old Ursuline Convent on Chartres Street was completed in 1752 for Ursuline nuns who came from France in 1727 to run a school and a hospital. It is among the oldest buildings in the Mississippi valley. A museum shows the nuns' history and the convent rooms, next to St. Mary's Church and a formal garden.

The New Orleans Museum of Art, founded in 1911 as the Delgado Museum, is the city's oldest fine-arts museum and stands in City Park. Its collection of about 40,000 works ranges from European painting and Japanese art to photography, glass and art from Africa and the Americas. Beside it lies the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

Jackson Square is the historic square at the heart of the French Quarter, laid out as the Place d'Armes in the early 18th century. The transfer of Louisiana to the United States was proclaimed here in 1803. A statue of Andrew Jackson stands in its garden, framed by St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, the Presbytere and the Pontalba Buildings.

St. Louis Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, facing Jackson Square in the French Quarter. A church has stood on the site since 1718; the present building dates from 1794 and was largely rebuilt in 1850, giving it its three spires. Inside are painted ceilings and stained-glass windows.