The Bayfield Heritage Association seeks to preserve and share the history of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands region, Wisconsin. To this end, the association operates the Bayfield Heritage Association Heritage Center. Key topics include settlement, logging, brownstone quarries, agriculture, fishing, tourism, and transportation.

The center offers exhibits, a period barbershop, tours, educational programs, and seminars. Upon request, the center will play filmed oral history interviews in which residents discuss when and how their families came to the area.

Jack London State Historic Park is a memorial to writer and adventurer Jack London, who made his home at the site from 1905 until his death in 1916. The park was once part of the famous writer's Beauty Ranch. The park contains the cottage residence where he wrote books, short stories, articles, and letters while he oversaw various agricultural enterprises. After London's death, his wife, Charmian, continued to live in the cottage until her death in 1955. It was her wish that the ranch be preserved in memory of Jack London and his work. There is a museum in "The House of Happy Walls," which Mrs. London built in a redwood grove.

The park offers tours and exhibits.

The Banneker-Douglass Museum presents African American history within Maryland. Collections include vernacular artifacts, art from both Maryland and Africa, rare books, and documents.

The museum offers exhibits, guided tours, traveling exhibits, and non-circulating library access. Two weeks advance notice is required for school groups desiring a guided tour.

The Fire Service Museum of the Northwest presents firefighting history via photographs and historic firefighting equipment and apparatus.

The museum offers exhibits and educational programs. Reservations are required for educational programs.

The Cuba Historical Society Museum presents artifacts relevant to the history of Cuba, New York.

The museum offers exhibits and tours. Tours are by appointment only.

The Historic New Orleans Collection, housed in a complex of historic French Quarter structures, is a museum, research center, and publisher. The collection's focus is the history and culture of both New Orleans and the Gulf South. The museum includes the Williams Gallery, which hosts temporary exhibits; Louisiana History Galleries, which depict state history; and a house museum, the Williams House. The Williams House is an Italianate townhouse built in 1889. The interior is interpreted in the style of the mid 20th-century, when General L. Kemper and Leila Williams, who instigated the collection, lived on site. This residence is the only French Quarter home open to the public which contains original furnishings and decorative arts objects. The Williams Research Center provides access to more than 35,000 library items and 350,000 artifacts.

The collection offers exhibits, period rooms, self-guided tours of the Williams Gallery, guided tours of the Louisiana History Galleries and Williams House, guided architectural tours, school tours of the Williams Gallery and Louisiana History Galleries, weekly curatorial talks, collections access, educator training programs, a school program about Creole cuisine history, and outreach presentations for school. Reservations are required for groups of eight or more desiring a guided tour and for school tours. The website offers podcasts and a list of teacher resources available upon request.

The Poland Spring Preservation Society was formed to preserve the Maine State Building and the All Souls Chapel. The Maine State Building was created in 1893 for the Chicago World's Fair. At the fair, it displayed exhibits, portraits of famous Maine residents, taxidermy, and a library. At this point in time, the building houses a portion of its original contents, as well as exhibits of local artwork. The Catholic and Protestant chapel was completed in 1912.

The society offers exhibits, an art gallery, and summer concerts.

The California Oil Museum recounts the boom in black gold in the city of Santa Paula during the late 19th century. The museum contains exhibits that display oil rigging tools, oil advertisements, wildcatter memorabilia, and other relevant artifacts.

School tours are available for K-12 with the option of hands-on educational programs.

The Howell Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Howell Township, New Jersey. To this end, the society operates the Old Ardena Schoolhouse and MacKenzie Museum. The museum and accompanying research library are located within a circa 1807-1855 structure. The schoolhouse dates to circa 1855.

The society offers exhibits, research library access, activities, and tours of the Old Ardena Schoolhouse. The schoolhouse is open to the public the last Sunday of each month.

The 1908 Point Arena Lighthouse is one of the western coast's taller lighthouses at 115 feet in height. Prior to the implementation of electricity, maintaining the light's rotation required a 160-pound weight to be cranked to the highest point in the lighthouse every 75 minutes.

The lighthouse offers guided tours and self-guided grounds tours.