Wilderstein is an independent nonprofit historic site, maintaining the 1888 Queen-Anne-style country house Wilderstein; its mission is to enrich people's lives by providing a relevant, engaging cultural destination; to protect, preserve, and restore the estate' architecture, landscape, and collections; and to interpret the site's history in compelling and innovative ways.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational programs.

The Society maintains the 1826 Fire Island Lighthouse, which still remains an active aid to navigation. Experienced staff guide visitors around the site, which provides panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean, the Great South Bay, Fire Island, Long Island, and the Manhattan Skyline; exhibits are also displayed in the space.

The society offers exhibits and tours.

Formed in 1970 to save the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate from the wrecking ball, MAC now operates the 18-room restored mansion as Cape May's only Victorian house museum. MAC also restored and operates the 1859 Cape May Lighthouse where visitors can climb the 199 steps to the top for a view of the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean. Year-round, MAC offers a full schedule of tours and events, including trolley, boat, walking, and ghost tours; food and wine events; summertime family activities; Spring Festival in April and May; the Cape May Music Festival in May and June; Victorian Week in early October; Halloween activities in late October; and six weeks of Christmas tours and events.

The center and its properties offer exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational programs.

Established in 1955, the New Bern Firemen's Museum seeks to preserve the history of firefighting in New Bern. The exhibits are original pieces of equipment from the city's past. New Bern was the first city in North Carolina to charter a fire company, and one of the first in the nation; and the city's firefighters hold many world records.

The museum offers exhibits.

USS Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the U.S. Navy, is open to the public as a museum in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The USS Constellation Museum invites guests to discover life on board the only Civil War era vessel still afloat and explore the ship's maritime history.

The ship offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, living history events, lectures, and other educational and recreational programs.

Camp Dennison, just outside of Cincinnati, was a military training camp and hospital camp during the Civil War. Today, visitors to Camp Dennison will find the 1804 Waldschmidt House Historical Museum and the Ohio Civil War Museum on site. The area offers information and insight into the Civil War and the happenings at Camp Dennison during this time period.

The museum offers tours, exhibits, and educational and recreational programs.

The Museum seeks to preserve and share with the public the history of railroading, particularly Texas railroading, as it has been and as it is now. The museum, open every weekend from April to November, features a collection of railroad locomotives, cars, and other artifacts, as well as a model railroad and a research library.

The museum offers exhibits and research library access.

This beautiful plantation represents the history and culture of Georgia's rice coast. In the early 1800s, William Brailsford of Charleston carved a rice plantation from marshes along the Altamaha River. The plantation and its inhabitants were part of the genteel low-country society that developed during the antebellum period. While many factors made rice cultivation increasingly difficult in the years after the Civil War, the family continued to grow rice until 1913.

Today, at the plantation, a museum features silver from the family collection and a model of Hofwyl-Broadfield during its heyday. A brief film on the plantation's history is shown before visitors walk a short trail to the antebellum home. A guided tour allows visitors to see the home as Ophelia kept it with family heirlooms, 18th- and 19th-century furniture and Cantonese china. As one of the Colonial Coast Birding Trail sites, Hofwyl-Broadfield offers a nature trail that leads back to the Visitors Center along the edge of the marsh where rice once flourished.

The plantation offers exhibits, a film, and tours.

With 16 historic buildings in its main complex, which occupies most of a square block in downtown Decorah, Iowa, and two National Register sites just outside the city, Vesterheim houses over 24,000 artifacts, which include large samplings from the fine, decorative, and folk arts, and the tools and machinery of early agriculture, lumbering, and other immigrant industries. Vesterheim also acts as a cultural center dedicated to preserving living traditions by offering classes in Norwegian folk art and culture, Elderhostels, and special programs for preschool, elementary, secondary, and college students.

The museums offers exhibits, classes, tours, research library access, and other educational and recreational programs.

Built in 1880 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the bank of the Grand River, Engine House No. 5 served the community with a horse-drawn steam pumper and a hose cart. The Engine House has since been moved and restored; and today, it houses firefighting equipment and memorabilia.

The museum offers exhibits and tours.