The 1891 Gilded Age James J. Hill House served as the residence of James J. Hill (1838-1916), chief executive officer of several Great Northern Railway lines; his family; and their servants. The interpretive focuses include family life and the life of the home's domestic servants. Other topics covered include Hill's career; architecture; interior design; and period heating, power, communication, and lighting systems. Hill's original gallery now displays art exhibits.

The house offers residence tours, exhibits, 75-minute tours of the residence for students, video or slide show introductory programs for students, late 19th-century skill workshops for children, 90-minute walking tours and 45-minute bus tours of the Summit Avenue neighborhood, lectures, concerts, and dramatic performances. Reservations are required for field trips. The website offers a word search.

The Fire Museum of Greater Chicago is dedicated to preserving the history of firefighting in the city of Chicago and its suburbs. The museum has been recently renovated and contains an impressive collection of firefighting memorabilia and equipment.

The museum offers guided tours. The website offers basic visitor information and a calendar of events.

The 1906 Beaux Arts Colonial McFaddin-Ward House presents the history of its residents and that of the Beaumont, TX area between 1906 and 1950. The McFaddins were involved in real estate, trapping, rice farming, rice milling, cattle, and oil. The grounds contain historic gardens. The carriage house contains period rooms and exhibits addressing the McFaddin's business interests and automobiles.

The house offers a 10-minute introductory film, period rooms, exhibits, guided tours, gardens, self-guided carriage house tours, and seventh grade tours. Guided tours consist of no more than eight visitors, and children under eight are not permitted. Spike heels cannot be worn in the residence. The home is not wheelchair accessible. The website offers pre-tour information and post-visit suggestions for educators.

The African and African American Historical Museum presents African American history and culture. Exhibit topics include the Middle Passage, African artifacts, the efforts of African-American inventors, the Underground Railroad, African American music, local history, and local sports.

The museum offers exhibits.

The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum, housed in the former corporate headquarters of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, interprets the rise of the copper mining industry in the region. The Museum also maintains the Muheim Heritage House Museum, an 1898 home restored to its turn-of-the-century state.

The museum offers exhibits and research library access; the Muheim Heritage House offers tours.

The Yonkers Fire Museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the Yonker's Fire Department. The museum houses an impressive collection of firefighting memorabilia and artifacts, including a vintage hand pumper.

The museum offers exhibits and guided tours. The website offers visitor information and a photo gallery.

The Hoard Museum is a local history museum focused on the historical heritage of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Thus, the museum covers a very broad range of historical events, ranging from the 1832 Black Hawk War to the lives of William Dempster Hoard, the father of the Wisconsin Dairy Industry, and Lorine Niedecker, a world famous poet.

The museum offers exhibits, guided tours, the Hoard's Historians Enrichment Series, and periodic presentations. The website offers visitor information, historical information regarding Fort Atkinson, and a calendar of events.

Jane Addams's Hull House was the most famous example of settlement houses popular during the American industrial revolution. The Hull House functioned as a center for the Chicago’s disadvantaged, offering community programs and other forms of community aid in poor, ethnic areas of Chicago.

The site offers school tours as well as lesson plans for teachers and pre-and post-visit activities.

The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture presents the history of African Americans in the South Carolina Lowcountry and in Charleston, South Carolina. Topics include slavery, emancipation, segregation, large-scale relocations, civil rights, and modern issues. The center includes a museum space and a research library, which boasts nearly 4,000 artifacts. Permanent exhibits address 19th-century social studies education, Gullah culture, and the work of master blacksmith Phillip Simmons. Approximately 40 percent of all Africans brought to the United States as slaves were brought ashore in the Charleston area.

The center offers exhibits, a period room, tours, research library access, research assistance, and oral histories. Reservations are required for all tour groups with five or more people.

Fayette Historic State Park houses a Historic Townsite, a representation of a once bustling industrial community. On the second Saturday of August the annual Heritage Day celebrates Fayette as a bustling iron smelting company town. Today, visitors to Fayette State Park see 19 structures including several public and commercial buildings, residences which housed the people of Fayette, and the stabilized ruins of the furnace complex. Attractions include a visitor center, museum exhibits, a 26-station walking tour, and a scale model of the original townsite.

The park offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.