Bishop Museum, situated at Honolulu District, O’ahu, is a remarkable tourist attraction for the cultural and natural history lovers. The great touristy museum was originated in 1889. Today, it is known to be the biggest museum in Hawai’I providing its visitors the world’s greatest assortment of Polynesian artistic relics and ancient natural variety. Apart from the wide-ranging showcasing in Hawaiiana, the overall natural history stuff in the museum goes beyond 24 million.
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Hanauma Bay
The circular-shaped shore, Hanauma bay is located on the southeast of east Honolulu which was once a volcanic crater. Hanauma is one of the most visited and beautiful tourist destinations because of its beautiful wild life that is preserved with a great effort. This beautiful destination offers an overall lifetime experience for all ages to enjoy and get acquainted with superabundance of fishes and marine life.
Portland – Oregon
Portland is the largest Oregon’s city on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. It is located in the snow-capped shadow Mount Hood. Portland is prominent for it bridges, parks and bicycle paths, besides is known for its coffeehouses, microbreweries and eco-friendliness. The city is dotted with music and theater scenes, besides thriving art and encompasses beautiful sites including the Oregon zoo, railway to Japanese Garden.
Lake Erie The Fourth Largest Lake In North America
Introduction:
Opportunities for tourism and recreation are ample in the United States with plenty of sights, natural landscapes, lakes, mountains and mesmerizing scenery. There are, without a doubt, some places which not only grasp your attention but create a desire to at least visit these areas some time in your life.
Times Square
From Great Kill to Center of the Universe
Times Square, the five-block section of central Manhattan in which Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue, calls itself “the crossroads of New York” and “the center of the universe”. It is clearly the most-visited tourist attraction in the United States and perhaps in the world; on average, half a million people pass through Times Square every day, and on special occasions like V-J day at the end of World War II or the changing of the millennium on New Year’s Eve in 1999 as many as two million people have filled the two connected triangles that form Times Square.
Corning Glass Museum
The Corning Museum of Glass is one of the world’s largest collections related to glass history, technology and art. Located in Corning, New York, approximately 250 miles from New York City and 125 miles from Buffalo, the museum was opened in 1951 in celebration of the centennial of the famous glass works that was founded in that city, and that is now a world-wide presence in the glass and ceramics industries under the name of Corning International. The museum originally occupied a low-slung glass-walled building designed in the International Style by Wallace Harrison, famous for Lincoln Center, LaGuardia Airport and the Museum of Modern Art.
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
How the Museum Started
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum has been an iconic tourist attraction, first in France and then in London, since the end of the 18th century. Now a worldwide chain of 14 museums and growing, the museums are entitled Madame Tussauds without the apostrophe, and are part of Merlin Entertainments, the largest amusement company in the world except for Disney. The first Tussaud wax exhibits opened in Paris in 1795 and moved to London in 1802; in addition to the London museum, the Tussauds group has opened museums in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Berlin, Blackpool, Hollywood, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, New York City, Shanghai, Sydney, Vienna, Washington, D.C., Wuhan, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Prague, Singapore, Orlando, San Francisco. The Tussauds portfolio includes about 50 other attractions, including Legoland, Sea Life Centers, Gardaland in Italy, The Dungeons, The London and Orlando Eye rides and Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, and Chessington World of Adventures in Britain.
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is located at the border between the two countries of Canada and the United States. On the Canadian side there is Ontario Province and on the United States side visitors will find the State of New York through which Niagara River flows before forming the falls. The name Niagara is used to identify three falls that are located close to one another. The biggest one is the Horseshoe Falls and the next is the American Falls. The smallest one is called the Bridal Veil Falls. Niagara River is the one that carries water from Lake Eerie to Lake Ontario which carries the water to form the falls.