Museums

American Museum of Natural History

Dinosaurs and dioramas on Central Park West

Museum of African American History and Culture

The Smithsonian's bronze-clad museum on the Mall

National Air and Space Museum

Flight and spaceflight on the National Mall

National Museum of American History

The nation's attic on the Mall

National Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian's most-visited museum

SFMOMA

The West Coast's modern-art flagship

The Art Institute of Chicago

Lions guarding a great encyclopedic collection

The Broad

Contemporary art behind a "veil and vault"

The California Science Center

Home of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

The Exploratorium

The hands-on science museum on the Bay

The Field Museum

Chicago's natural-history giant, home of Sue

The Franklin Institute

Philadelphia's science museum and giant heart

The Getty Center

Art and architecture above Los Angeles

The Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral on Fifth Avenue

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

America's largest and most-visited art museum

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

New England's great art museum

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The temple of modern art in Midtown

The National Gallery of Art

The nation's art museum on the Mall

The National WWII Museum

The story of the war, told in New Orleans

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

The nation's memorial to the Holocaust