Frommer’s 500 Places List

Organized by continent, I’ve listed the places, sites, and experiences recommended in Frommer’s 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up. With two editions, the list is actually longer than 500 and I’ve noted with a (*) the places unique to the first edition and a (**) for those unique to the second edition.

Last, but not least, I encourage you to read our posts for the ones we’ve visited by clicking on the link!!

Africa

Botswana

• The Okavango Delta

Egypt

• Egyptian Museum
• Pyramids of Giza
• Valley of the King

Israel

• Acre
• Church of the Nativity
• Dead Sea
• Masada
• Temple Mount/Church of the Holy Sepulcher/Mount of Olives

Jordan

• Petra

Morocco

• Souk of Marrakesh

South Africa

• Blyde River Canyon
• Cape Town colony of penguins
• Kruger National Park **

Tanzania

• Mt. Kilimanjaro

Tunisia

• dune walking in the Sahara

Zambia or Zimbabwe

• Victoria Falls

Asia

Cambodia

• Angkor Wat

China

• Forbidden City
• Giant pandas of Wolong
• Great Wall of China
• Hong Kong
• Victoria Peak (Hong Kong)
• Warriors of Xi’an

India

• Camel safari in Rajasthan
• Cave temples of Ajanta & Ellora
• Golden Temple
• Great Stupa of Sanchi
• Taj Mahal

Indonesia

• Borobudur

Japan

• Edo-Tokyo Museum
• Ghibli Museum
• Hiroshima
• Kaiyukan Aquarium
• Kyoto
• Mount Fuji
• National Museum of Emerging Science **
• Nikko
• Tokyo sights*
• Tokyo monorail **
• Ueno Park **

Russia

• The Hermitage
• The Kremlin
• Red Square **
• St. Basil’s Cathedral

Thailand

• Phang Nga Bay

Australia/New Zealand

• Blue Mountain Scenic Railway
• Coober Pedy **
• Dolphin Discovery Centre
• Great Barrier Reef
• Great Ocean Road
• Kangaroo Island
• Kuranda’s Scenic Skyways
• Luna Park **
• Mission Beach **
• National Sports Museum **
• Powerhouse Museum
• Sydney Aquarium
• Sydney Harbour Bridge
• Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Ayer’s Rock)
• Warrumbungle National Park/Coonabaran Observatory
• Whitehaven Beach **
• Fiordlands National Park (New Zealand) **
• Mount Cook (New Zealand) **
• Rotorua (New Zealand)
• Stewart Island (New Zealand) **
• Wellington Cable Car (New Zealand) **

Europe

Austria

• Danube
• Domkirche St. Stephans **
• Hundertwasser’s architecture
• Riesenrad
• Salzburg
• Schloss Hellbrunn
• Schonbrunn Zoo
• Summer bobsledding in the Alps

Belgium

• Bruges
• Grand-Place
• Waterloo
• Ypres

Crete

• Knossos

Czech Republic

• Cesky Krumlov **
• Jewish Quarter of Prague
• Staromestske nam (Prague) **

Denmark

• Elsinore
• Hans Christian Anderson House
• Legoland **
• Tivoli Gardens

England

• Battle of Hastings
• Beatrix Potter Country
• British Museum
• Bronte Parsonage Museum
• Canterbury Cathedral
• Cheddar Gorge & Wookey Hole
• Chester
• Cotswolds hiking **
• Cutty Sark (Greenwich)
• Geffrye Museum *
• Golden Hinde II
• Greenwich
• Hadrian’s Wall
• Hampton Court Palace
• HMS Victory
• Hyde Park **
• Imperial War Museum & Cabinet War Rooms
• Ironbridge Gorge
• Jersey & Guernsey
• Jorvik Viking Centre
• Jurassic Coast
• Liverpool Beatles tour
• London sights *
• London Dungeon/Madame Tussaud’s **
• London Eye
• London Zoo **
• Marylebone Cricket Club **
• Old Trafford **
• Oxford University
• Punting on the Cam
• Roman Britain (Bath)
• Science & Natural History Museums
• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
• Sherwood Forest **
• Stonehenge & Avebury
• Stratford-upon-Avon
• Tower Bridge
• Tower of London
• Warwick Castle
• Westminster Abbey **
• Wimbledon

Finland

• Santa’s Village

France

• Arles
• Bayeux tapestry
• The Camargue
• Carnac **
• Caves at Lascaux
• Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie
• D-Day beaches of Normandy
• Eiffel Tower **
• Fontainebleau
• Joan of Arc
• Le Pont Neuf
• Les Calanches
• Mont Blanc/Pointe Heilbronner cable car
• Mont-St-Michel
• Notre-Dame de Paris
• Parc Asterix
• Paris sights *
• Paris art museums
• Paris Opera
• Paris sewers & catacombs
• Trams of Marseilles
• Verdun
• Versailles
• Volcanoes of the Auvergne

Germany

• Berlin Wall
• Berlin Zoo
• Black Forest
• Cathedral of the Three Kings
• Dachau Concentration Camp
• Deutsches Museum
• Europa Park
• Fairy-Tale Road
• Heidelberg ruins
• Jewish Museum
• Lutherstadt Wittenberg **
• Marienplatz
• Neuschwanstein
• Trier

Greece

• Acropolis
• Alexander the Great country
• Delphi
• National Archaeological Museum
• Olympia
• Rhodes
• Theatre of Epidaurus

Hungary

• Buda Castle Labyrinth
• Chain Bridge (Budapest) **
• Danube

Iceland

• Blue Lagoon
• Landmannalaugar
• Thingvellir
• Vestmannaeyjar puffins

Ireland

• Book of Kells
• Bunratty Castle & Folk Park
• The Burren
• Cliffs of Moher
• Clonmacnois
• Doolin
• Dun Aengus
• Hill of Tara **
• Irish National Heritage Park
• Newgrange
• Pony trekking Connemara
• Ring of Kerry
• Vikings in Dublin

Italy

• Amalfi Drive
• Beehive houses of Apulia
• Catacombs of Rome
• Colosseum
• Doge’s Palace
• Gondolas of Venice
• Hadrian’s Villa *
• Lake Como
• The Last Supper
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Paestum
• Pantheon
• Piazza San Marco **
• Pointe Heilbronner/Mont Blanc cable car
• Pompeii
• Ponte Vecchio
• Rome Piazzas/fountains
• Running of the Palio
• San Gimignano
• Uffizi Gallery
• Vatican
• Verona

Monaco

• Grand Prix

Netherlands

• Amsterdam canal boats
• Anne Frank house
• Haarlem
• Museumplein masterpieces
• Windmills of Kinderkijk **

Northern Ireland

• Giant’s Causeway

Norway

• Cruising the fjords
• Kon-Tiki
• Polar Nights & Northern lights (Tromso)

Romania

• Bran Castle
• Painted churches of Moldavia

Scotland

• Arran Island
• Ben Nevis
• Culloden Battlefield
• Foula
• Glasgow Science Centre
• Highland Games
• Iona
• Loch Ness monster
• Orkney Islands
• Royal castles
• St. Andrews

Spain

• Alhambra
• Altamira Cave **
• Cambrils **
• Catedral de Leon
• Caves of Majorca
• Gaudi buildings in Barcelona
• Museo del Prado
• Parc Guell **
• Plaza Mayor **
• Santiago de Compostela

Sweden

• Djurgarden **
• Gamla Uppsala **
• Stockholm sights *
• Vasamuseet

Switzerland

• The Glacier Express
• Grindelwald
• Mystery Park *
• Swiss Open-Air Museum

Turkey

• Ancient Troy
• Ephesus
• Sultananmet
• Topkapi Palace

Wales

• Mountain Railways of North Wales
• National Coal Museum **
• Portmeirion **
• Snowdonia National Park

North America

Canada

• Anne of Green Gables country
• Bike-riding Montreal
• British Columbia Native Peoples
• Cabot Trail
• Calgary Stampede
• CN Tower
• Columbia Icefields Parkway
• International Hockey Hall of Fame
• Montreal Underground *
• Montreal Biodome **
• Niagara Falls
• Nova Scotia
• Rocky Mountaineer *
• Seattle-Victoria Ferry
• Toronto Zoo
• Vancouver Aquarium
• Whale-watching in Quebec

Caribbean

Antigua

• Beaches

Cayman Islands

• Pirate cruising
• Stingray City

Little Cayman Island

• Booby Pond Nature Reserve

Netherlands Antilles

• Bonaire Marine Park

Puerto Rico

• El Yunque
• San Juan Fortress
• Swimming at Vieques

US Virgin Islands

• Snorkeling Trunk Bay Trail

Central America

Costa Rica

• Monteverde Cloud Forest
• Sea turtles at Tortuguero

Ecuador

• Galapagos Islands

Guatemala

• Tikal

Mexico

• Chichen Itza
• Chihuahua al Pacifico Railway
• Monarch butterflies
• Museo de los Momias
• Teo tihuacan
• Tulum

United States

Alabama

• Civil Rights Trail

Alaska

• Denali National Park
• Inside Passage

Arizona

• Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum *
• Ballooning over Sedona
• Canyon de Chelly
• Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
• Grand Canyon
• Hopi reservations
• Monument Valley
• Petrified Forest & Painted Desert
• Saguaro National Park *
• Tombstone & Bisbee
• Wigwam Villages **

Arkansas

• Little Rock Central High School

California

• Alcatraz
• Cable cars of San Francisco
• California Mission Trail
• Disneyland
• Exploratorium
• Golden Gate Bridge
• Gold Rush Country
• Griffith Observatory
• Half Moon Bay
• Hearst Castle
• Hollywood
• Huntington Library
• Joshua Tree
• La Brea Tar Pits
• Legoland *
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Mount Palomar
• Old Town State Historic Park (San Diego)
• Pacific Coast Highway *
• Pinnacles National Monument
• Redwood National & State Parks
• San Diego Zoo
• Santa Cruz Boardwalk
• Santa Monica Pier Carousel
• Santa Monica State Beach
• Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
• Snorkeling Catalina Island *
• Watts Tower
• Wigwam villages
• Winchester Mystery House
• Yosemite National Park

Colorado

• Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
• Florissant Fossil Beds *
• Mesa Verde
• Rocky Mountain National Park
• San Juan Skyway *

Connecticut

• Boulder Dash
• Mark Twain’s house
• Mashantucket Pequot Museum
• Mystic Aquarium *
• Mystic Seaport

Florida

• Biscayne National Park
• Coral Castle
• Crystal River
• Everglades
• Islands of Adventure
• Kennedy Space Center
• Miami Seaquarium *
• NASCAR Classic (Daytona)
• Sanibel Island
• Spring baseball training *

Georgia

• Dr. King’s Legacy
• Georgia Aquarium **
• Okefenokee Swamp
• Stone Mountain National Park
• Zoo Atlanta *

Hawaii

• Haleakala Crater Road
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
• Mauna Kea
• Pearl Harbor
• Poipu Beach
• Puako Petroglyphs **

Idaho

• Craters of the Moon National Monument

Illinois

• Art Institute of Chicago
• Brookfield Zoo *
• Cahokia Mounds
• Chicago sights *
• Field Museum
• Lincoln Trail sites
• Museum of Science and Industry
• Shedd Aquarium
• Wrigley Field

Indiana

• Connor Prairie Farm
• Indianapolis Speedway
• Notre Dame University

Iowa

• Amana Colonies
• Effigy Mounds
• Herbert Hoover Homestead *

Kansas

• Brown v. Board of Education (Monroe School)
• Fort Scott *
• Kansas Cosmosphere *

Kentucky

• Kentucky Derby
• Lincoln Trail sites
• Louisville Slugger Museum *
• Mammoth Cave
• Wigwam villages **

Louisiana

• New Orleans cemeteries **
• New Orleans sights *
• New Orleans streetcars **

Maine

• Acadia National Park
• Lighthouse Tour *

Maryland

• Fort McHenry
• National Aquarium *

Massachusetts

• Basketball Hall of Fame
• Black Heritage Trail
• Boston Common
• Cape Cod Baseball
• Cape Cod National Seashore *
• Fenway Park
• Flying Horses Carousel
• Lexington & Concord
• Little Women house
• Nantucket Bicycling
• Nantucket stargazing
• New England Aquarium
• Old Ironsides
• Old Sturbridge Village
• Paul Revere House
• Plimoth Plantation

Michigan

• Greenfield Village
• Holland in America *
• Mackinac Island

Minnesota

• Mall of America
• Paul Bunyan Statue

Mississippi

• Highway 61 *
• Vicksburg

Missouri

• Gateway Arch *
• George Washington Carver birthplace
• Mark Twain Museum
• Truman home

Montana

• Flathead River *
• Going to the Sun Road
• Yellowstone National Park

Nebraska – Agate Springs Ranch

Nevada

• Hoover Dam
• Las Vegas Strip *
• Valley of Fire
• Vegas Thrill Rides

New Hampshire – Appalachian Trail

New Jersey

• Atlantic City Boardwalk *
• Edison Historic Site
• Great New Jersey Diner Hunt *
• Kingda Ka Ride

New Mexico

• Carlsbad Caverns
• Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
• Ghost Ranch
• Santa Fe *
• Taos Pueblo

New York

• American Museum of Natural History
• American Museum of the Moving Image
• Baseball Hall of Fame
• Bronx Zoo
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Canoeing the Adirondacks
• Central Park **
• The Cyclone
• Empire State Building **
• FDR Hyde Park
• Fort Ticonderoga
• Howe Caverns & Secret Caverns
• Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
• Lake Placid *
• Manhattan sights *
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Niagara Falls
• Rye Playland
• Robert Louis Stevenson cottage
• Saratoga Race Course
• Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
• Yankee Stadium (Original) *

North Carolina

• Biltmore Estate
• Blue Ridge Parkway
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore
• Kitty Hawk
• Roanoke Island

North Dakota

• Knife River Indian Villages *

Ohio

• Cincinnati Zoo
• Dayton Aviation Heritage Park
• Millennium Force (Sandusky)
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Newark Earthworks
• Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Oklahoma

• Knife River Indian Villages *

Oregon

• Columbia River Gorge *
• Rim Drive (Crater Lake)
• Snake River Rafting

Pennsylvania

• Amish Country
• Delaware Water Gap
• Franklin Institute
• Gettysburg National Park
• Factories of Pennsylvania *
• Philadelphia sights
• Valley Forge

Rhode Island

• Flying Horses Carousel
• International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Newport mansions

South Carolina – Charles Towne Landing

South Dakota

• Corn Palace
• Custer State Park
• Mount Rushmore
• Wall Drug

Tennessee

• Graceland
• Great Smoky Mountains
• The Hermitage
• Highway 61 *
• Nashville Music Scene
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Skyline & Blue Ridge Drive

Texas

• Alamo
• Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
• Dinosaur Valley
• Guadalupe River tubing
• LBJ Homestead
• Menil collection *
• San Antonio River Walk *
• Space Center Houston
• Stockyards National Historic District

Utah

• Arches National Park
• Bryce National Park

Vermont

• Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site *
• Covered bridges *
• Shelburne Museum *
• Teddy Bear & Ben/Jerry Factories *

Virginia

• Assateague
• Booker T. Washington birthplace
• Frontier Culture Museum *
• Jefferson’s Monticello
• Mount Vernon
• Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Parkway
• Williamsburg, Jamestown, & Yorktown

Washington

• Experience Music Project
• San Juan Islands
• Seattle-Victoria Ferry
• Space Needle **

Washington, DC

• National Air & Space Museum
• National Mall *
• National Museum of Natural History
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Zoo *
• The Spy Museum
• Washington Monument **

West Virginia

• New River Gorge *

Wisconsin

• Apostle Island National Park
• Green Bay Packers

Wyoming

• Devil’s Tower
• Dude Ranches
• Yellowstone National Park

South America

Argentina – Iguazu Falls

Bolivia – Lake Titicaca

Brazil

• Amazon River *
• Pantanal

Chile

• Easter Island
• Torres del Paine

Peru

• Lake Titicaca
• Machu Picchu
• Nasca Lines

Venezuela

• Angel Falls
• El Teleferico