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Place Royale is a cobbled square in the Lower Town of Old Quebec on the site where Samuel de Champlain built his settlement in 1608. Stone houses rebuilt after the fire of 1682 surround a bust of Louis XIV, erected in 1686, and the church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires; the square was restored to its French colonial look from 1970.

The Musée de la civilisation is a museum of human societies and history in the Lower Town of Old Quebec, near the St. Lawrence. Designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988, its building incorporates the older Maison Estèbe and Banque de Paris; its collection of over 225,000 objects feeds permanent and temporary exhibitions on Quebec and the wider world.

Montmorency Falls Park surrounds the 83-metre waterfall where the Montmorency River drops into the St. Lawrence, on the border of Quebec City and Boischatel, about 12 km east of Old Quebec. Run by Sépaq, it has a cable car to the top, a suspension bridge over the crest and a staircase of 487 steps down the cliff beside the falls.

Canyon Sainte-Anne is a gorge carved by the Sainte-Anne-du-Nord River in Saint-Joachim, 6 km east of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and about 40 km northeast of Quebec City. The river drops 74 metres in a waterfall between rock walls 1.2 billion years old, and trails lead across three suspension bridges, the highest 60 metres above the canyon floor.

Discovery Place Science is a hands-on science and technology museum on North Tryon Street in Uptown Charlotte, opened in 1981 and renovated in 2010. Its exhibits cover physics, the human body, engineering and the natural world, with a rainforest, an aquarium and live animals, and the Charlotte Observer IMAX Dome theatre shows films on a domed screen.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame in Uptown Charlotte opened in 2010 and honours drivers, crew chiefs, team owners and others from the history of American stock-car racing. Behind its facade wrapped in a stainless-steel ribbon, it shows race cars on a banked ramp called Glory Road, interactive racing simulators, a pit-stop challenge and the Hall of Honor.

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Uptown Charlotte opened in 2010 in a terracotta-clad building by the Swiss architect Mario Botta, part of the Levine Center for the Arts. It shows the collection of the Bechtler family of Zurich, about 1,400 works of mid-20th-century modernism by artists such as Giacometti, Miró, Picasso, Warhol and Tinguely.

Mint Museum Uptown opened in 2010 on South Tryon Street, part of the Levine Center for the Arts. The Mint Museum, founded in 1936 as North Carolina's first art museum in the former Charlotte branch of the US Mint, shows here its collections of American and contemporary art, European art, and craft and design, while the original building on Randolph Road houses its other collections.

The U.S. National Whitewater Center, opened in 2006 beside the Catawba River about 16 km west of Uptown Charlotte, is a non-profit outdoor centre on some 530 hectares. Its main feature is a large recirculating artificial whitewater river used for rafting, kayaking and Olympic training, alongside climbing walls, ziplines, ropes courses and more than 80 km of trails.

The Billy Graham Library, opened in 2007 at the headquarters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in south-west Charlotte, documents the life and ministry of the evangelist Billy Graham, who grew up on a dairy farm nearby. The building is designed as a dairy barn; exhibits follow his crusades, and his restored family home and the graves of Graham and his wife Ruth are on the grounds.

Carowinds is an amusement park of about 165 hectares on the state line between North and South Carolina, about 16 km south of downtown Charlotte; the border is painted across its entrance plaza. Opened in 1973, it has more than a dozen roller coasters, including the 99-metre Fury 325, and the Carolina Harbor water park.

Hard Rock Cafe Myrtle Beach is the music-themed restaurant of the Hard Rock chain at Broadway at the Beach, housed in a pyramid built in the style of an ancient Egyptian temple. It serves American dishes, has a bar and a Rock Shop, and displays guitars, stage clothes and other memorabilia from musicians.

Kings Island is an amusement park in Mason, near Cincinnati, opened in 1972 by Taft Broadcasting and now run by Six Flags. Its 147 hectares hold more than a hundred rides and attractions, among them over a dozen roller coasters such as The Beast and The Racer, a one-third-scale copy of the Eiffel Tower and the Soak City water park.

The Myrtle Beach Boardwalk and Promenade runs for about 1.9 km along the oceanfront between the 14th Avenue Pier and the 2nd Avenue Pier, opened in 2010. Partly a raised wooden walkway over the dunes and partly a paved promenade, it passes the SkyWheel, arcades, shops, restaurants and Plyler Park, which hosts summer concerts.

The SkyWheel is a 57-metre observation wheel on the Myrtle Beach boardwalk, opened in 2011. Its 42 enclosed, climate-controlled gondolas each make three turns, giving views along the beaches of the Grand Strand and out over the Atlantic. At night the wheel is lit by about a million LED lights.

Family Kingdom Amusement Park is a seaside amusement park on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, open since 1966 and the last of the city's oceanfront parks. It has about 35 rides, from children's rides and go-karts to a Ferris wheel and the Swamp Fox, a wooden roller coaster of 1966, and an oceanfront water park next door.

Myrtle Beach State Park, about 6 km south of downtown Myrtle Beach, was the first state park in South Carolina to open, in 1936, with buildings by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It protects one of the last stretches of maritime forest on the Grand Strand, behind a beach with a fishing pier, and has a nature centre, trails and a campground.

Krohn Conservatory is a glass greenhouse in Eden Park, completed in 1933 to an Art Deco design by Rapp & Meacham and named in 1937 after park commissioner Irwin M. Krohn. Its houses hold more than 3,500 plant species, among them palms, ferns, desert plants, orchids and a bonsai collection, and a show room hosts seasonal displays such as the butterfly show.

The Cincinnati Art Museum opened in 1886 in a Romanesque Revival building by James W. McLaughlin in Eden Park. Its collection of more than 73,000 works spans about 6,000 years, from antiquities and Asian art to European and American painting, and the Cincinnati Wing, added in 2003, shows art made in or for the city since 1788.

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in the Avondale neighbourhood opened in 1875 and is the second-oldest zoo in the United States. It keeps around 1,800 animals of more than 400 species among some 3,000 kinds of plants, and several of its historic buildings, among them the domed Elephant House, are a National Historic Landmark.