If
you are visiting USA with your kids and you want to explore the kids amusement
part of the country I will help you in that. In this article I will cover few
places you should see while you are travelling with your kids. There is always
a difference between travelling with your soul mate and with your kids. You
will have to explore complete different touring options with your kids as kids
are usually gets bored on the places you want to explore with soul mate. Here is
the list of places you should visit while travelling with kids.
Ellis Island Museum, New York City: About 40 percent of Americans are descended
from someone who immigrated through this station. Visiting is a powerful
experience, thanks to the smartly curated exhibits—and you get a terrific view
of the Statue of Liberty on the same ferry ride.
Ground Zero, New York City: The hole in lower Manhattan is sacred
ground. The nearby Tribute-WTC Center exhibits crushed firefighter helmets and
other recovered items.
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.: This is a city of inspiring sights: the
Washington Monument, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Jefferson and Vietnam
Veterans memorials. Still, the 19-foot marble statue of our 16th president is a
can't-miss.
Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg,
Va.: Kids growing up with e-mail and
iPods might not believe it, but there was life before electricity, and even
before a United States. The 301-acre open-air museum features hundreds of
restored, reconstructed, and historically furnished buildings, and costumed
guides tell the stories of the men and women of the 18th-century city ($35,
kids 6-17 $18).
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii: Sunk by a surprise attack on December
7, 1941, the USS Arizona remains six feet below the water as a lasting monument
to World War II veterans. A memorial that spans the sunken battleship was
dedicated in 1962.
Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz.: Look at what wind, water, and erosion can
do: At 5,000 feet deep and an average of 10 miles across, it's the most
magnificent natural wonder in the country, and perhaps the world ($12, vehicles
$25, kids 15 and younger free).
National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis: The motel where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. was killed is a museum chronicling the African-American struggle from
slavery to Rosa Parks and beyond (civilrightsmuseum.org, $12, $8.50 kids). Also
highly worthwhile: Alabama's Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (bcri.org, $11,
kids $3) and Cincinnati's National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
(freedomcenter.org, $9, kids $6, free for kids 6 and under).
Monticello, Va.: Besides the Declaration of Independence,
one of Thomas Jefferson's other masterpieces is the estate he designed and
tinkered with over the course of five decades, located seven miles from the
University of Virginia—which Jefferson also founded (monticello.org, tours from
$15, kids 6–11 $8, free for children 5 and under).
Gettysburg, Pa.: It's never too early to learn about the
sacrifices of those who came before: In the bloodiest war in our nation's
history, this Civil War battlefield was the bloodiest of all. Visitors can also
see the spot where President Lincoln delivered his famed Civil War speech in
1863 .