Rainy Day Fun
It doesn't have to be dreary on a rainy day! Museums, cozy cafes with a view, stormy seasides from your car, aquariums, lazy drives, science centers, and children's museums.
Exquisite modern building on bluffs over the Tennessee River. Gorgeous views of the blue Walnut Street Bridge and good artwork too!
Incredible children's museum with beautiful areas and fascinating interactive exhibits designed by local artists.
You can park your car and watch the pelicans bobbing in the inlet, the fishermen on the jetty, and surfers come to ride the winter waves at Jupiter Inlet.
Full of atmosphere, like Disneyland! Take the glass elevator to the top of the pyramid!
You can park your car right by the water and watch the ocean on cold, winter days. 748 SE 21st Ave is a good place to pull over.
You can drive onto this pier in Santa Barbara and watch the ocean and stunning mountain views from your car while you have a cup of ice cream.
Park your car at the base of the pier and watch hundreds of pelicans and sailboats bobbing in the water. You can hear the seals barking! Then drive over to Hula Hut and sip some tea while looking out the window at the ocean.
Gorgeous drive under tall oaks strung with Spanish moss, beside a blue lake, past mansions and their docks.
If you're in Ventura on a rainy day, this is an amazing place to watch surfers ride the big winter waves close up from your car!
Planetarium with great shows! And one floor dedicated to science exhibits.
Very attractive river center with aquarium exhibits, plus park with boat ramps and nice playground.
Excellent science center which is almost like a modern children's museum, with tons of amazing hands-on activities for kids.
An exceptionally good science center in a historical square that holds the oldest residential houses in Phoenix.
Inspiring Science museum with excellent hands-on exhibits!
Gorgeous aquarium with animals from the Amazon, California tide pools, and Philippine coral reefs.
Center with large magical lifelike dioramas of Foster's songs, bell-tower, and river gazebo.
Very interesting, state-of-the-art museum, covering deployments in many different countries. Not interactive for kids though.
Huge, modern Science museum that you will remember fondly for years to come!
Beautiful museum with two-storey ship where kids can blast cannons, plus pretend grocery store, vet clinic, and auto repair center.
Interesting garden with vegetables, on the waterfront promenade, plus exhibits about Nestle and food packaging, inside the elegant mansion where their offices were located.
Fabulous five-storey museum with colorful, interesting art by Southern artists.
Modern three-storey museum with colorful imaginative exhibits that kids enjoy.
Modern building with large windows, fascinating Peruvian and Costa Rican objects, and sculpture garden in Loch Haven Park.
Lovely museum in beautiful historic building with portraits, paintings, and sculptures, many relating to Charleston.
Airy modern architecture and many paintings. Cafe, gift shop, amazing landscaped grounds with sculptures and boulders to climb. Summer concerts.
Incredible glass building with interesting activity stations for kids and modern art for parents.
Costumes from movies, comic books from days of old, and items from favorite shows, all in a spacious museum with high ceilings and places to rest.
Impressive rotunda with dinosaur skeleton, great gem exhibit, but nothing at all for kids to do in the main galleries. Don't bring kids!
Attractive light-filled museum with three halls, one permanent and two temporary, and a museum store.
Nice two-storey museum with well-told history of banjo on lit-up porch, beautiful banjos displayed, and front room where you can play a banjo!
Free state-of-the-art history museum with exhibits on pirates, the civil war, and World War II in North Carolina.
Impressive museum with giant war planes, fascinating exhibits, and a kid's area like a control tower.
Museum about Ronald Reagan's life and events that occurred during his presidency- fascinating and beautifully presented.
Beautiful gardens on the river, plus some nice classic artwork inside and a fun kid's area.
Beautiful gardens on the river, plus some nice classic artwork inside and a fun kid's area.
Aquarium at the beach boardwalk, with many interesting fish and sea creatures you haven't seen before.
Beautiful nature center on Hutchinson Island, with nature trail on boardwalks, lagoon filled with sharks and game fish, stingrays you can feed by hand, and huge ocean deck with views around the island!
Fun shop with aquarium and animals, especially nice at Christmastime or when they have a kids activity.
Amazing science center with aquarium, engineering lab, mirror maze, health displays, flight room, and gorgeous architecture and views.
Beautiful nature center on Hutchinson Island, with nature trail on boardwalks, lagoon filled with sharks and game fish, stingrays you can feed by hand, and huge ocean deck with views around the island!
Beautiful area with white sand beach on turquoise river, playground, and small well-cared-for aquarium.
Wonderful exhibits that you will remember forever, especially the Great Barrier Reef exhibit and the Dugong Lagoon.
Wonderful aquarium with animals you've never seen before, and an outdoor splash park for kids.
You can park your car here and watch birds divebombing into the water! Then drive over to Scout Coffee Morro Bay or Shine Cafe for a warm snack.
You can park your car by the ocean and watch the white cliffs, pelicans and huge waves hitting the pier, on a stormy winter day. Then drive over to Dean A Coffee Shop for a cup of hot coffee.
A ton of stuff to explore in a cute three-storey building in downtown San Luis Obispo.
Amazingly beautiful aquarium, but unbearably crowded and ridiculously expensive.
Huge, modern Science museum that you will remember fondly for years to come!
A museum with an amazing amount of fun things for kids to explore!
Modern children's museum with cars to race, model train town, ship to climb with basement to explore, and stage with songs to perform.
Children's museum with fun dairy exhibit, in a beautiful old schoolhouse with huge windows.
A drive along roads lined with hundreds of canary palms, through an old oak forest, past a clifftop lookout, amongst multimillion-dollar homes.
Fantastic museum with huge fossils, amazing dinosaurs, and lovely gems.
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