American Heritage: Historic Sites, Museums and Battlefields across the US

The 1918 Atlantic Coast Line Depot plays host to the Winter Garden Heritage Museum, which investigates central Florida's myriad past.

This museum focuses on the archaeological artifacts found in the region including some of the oldest mammoth fossils, as well as the pioneer age.

The Toolesboro site consists of seven burial mounds on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River.

This historical society houses an abundant collection of research resources.

This comprehensive and imaginative museum chronicles the history of Florida and Tampa Bay.

Pipe Springs was discovered and named by the 1858 Latter-day Saint missionary expedition to the Hopi mesas led by Jacob Hamlin.

The museum educates locals and tourists on the history of Pensacola.

The Museum of Natural History is dedicated to inspiring curiosity, discovery, and learning about the natural world through its unparalleled research, collections, exhibitions, and education outreach programs.

One of our nation's first National Monuments, Montezuma's Castle is one of the best preserved prehistoric cliff dwellings in North America.

The Medicine Lodge site has long been known for its Indian petroglyphs and pictographs, directly associated with important human habitation sites for thousands of years.

The Matheson Museum explores the history of the Gainesville area from the Timucuan Indians through European settlement and United States membership.

In this unspoiled natural environment, visitors can step into natural history and experience a piece of America as it was before European colonization.

The Lost City Museum was established in 1935 by the National Park Service to exhibit artifacts that were being excavated from Pueblo Grande de Nevada.

This historical park offers a natural environment for trails, picnics, and wildlife viewing in one of Florida's most historic state parks.

At Kincaid Mounds are preserved the remains of a number of earthen mounds that were once part of a city created by Native Americans during the Middle Mississippian period. (A.D. 900-1500).

The area sports a tradition of copper mining stretching back millennia.

The Kenosha Public Museum is a natural sciences and fine and decorative arts museum, including exhibits on mammoth excavations in the area.

Located on Jacksonville's Southbank, this museum features interactive, award-winning exhibitions and engaging programs covering physical and natural science, regional history, and astronomy.

Hovenweep National Monument protects six prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border.

Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world.

Double Ditch Indian Village was a large earthlodge village inhabited by the Mandan Indians for nearly 300 years (AD 1490 - 1785).

The Dinosaur Discovery Museum is the only museum to exclusively focus on the link between birds and meat-eating dinosaurs, one of the most complete known fossil records.

The park served important ceremonial purposes for Native Americans in the pre-Columbian era.

Coronado State Monument includes the partially reconstructed ruins of the ancient Pueblo of Kuaua, a Tiwa word for "evergreen".

Explore the ruins of a Pubeloan Indian village at this archeological site. A guided walking tour takes visitors through the different sites and explains their individual significance.

A museum dedicated to the history of the Charlotte area whose collection ranges from the pre-Columbian to the post-WWII.

Mysteriously abandoned in the early 15th century, Casa Malpais Archaeological Park is situated atop a rim of volcanic rock overlooking the Little Colorado River's Round Valley.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves an ancient Hohokam farming community and "Great House."

The caverns provide a historical look at 113 of some of the largest caves in North America, formed when sulfuring acid dissolved the surrounding limestone.

Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, the cultural resources of Canyon de Chelly include distinctive architecture, artifacts, and rock imagery.

At Bandelier, evidence of the Ancestral Pueblo people can be found in the dwellings, artifacts, and continuing culture of the modern pueblo.

At the Aztec Ruins, visitors can follow ancient passageways to a distant time and explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms.

The pre-Columbian Anasazi people inhabited this site, which has been partly excavated, and left behind numerous artifacts that today serve to educate visitors about their way of life.

One of the most important archaeological sites in Illinois, Albany Mounds contains evidence of continuous human occupation over the last 10,000 years.