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13 attractions
New York City
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
America's museum, full stop — two million works across five thousand years in the Fifth Avenue palace, from the Temple of Dendur in its glass hall to armor, Rembrandts, and a rooftop over Central Park. The one every ranking starts with.
American Museum of Natural History
The dinosaur halls, the blue whale, and the dioramas that invented the genre — four city blocks of natural wonder on Central Park West, now with the Gilder Center's canyon-like halls and a butterfly vivarium. The great American family museum.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
The twin reflecting pools in the towers' footprints, and beneath them the museum that holds the day itself — the Survivors' Stairs, the Last Column, the slurry wall. The hardest visit on this list, and among the most necessary.
Chicago
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Art Institute of Chicago
America's second-greatest art museum and many critics' first — behind the bronze lions on Michigan Avenue wait American Gothic, Nighthawks, Seurat's Grande Jatte, a hall of Monets, and the Thorne miniature rooms. Pound for pound, unbeatable.
Field Museum
SUE the T. rex — the most complete ever found — holds court in a marble temple on Chicago's Museum Campus, backed by a 122-foot titanosaur, a walk-through Egyptian tomb, man-eating lions, and natural history at imperial scale.
Washington DC
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National Air and Space Museum
The Wright Flyer, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the machines that reached the Moon — the Smithsonian's flight cathedral on the National Mall, free as all Smithsonians are but pass-gated, and freshly renewed by a top-to-bottom renovation.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The bronze corona on the National Mall — the Smithsonian's most powerful museum descends to a slave cabin and Emmett Till's casket, then climbs through the movement to the culture floors. Free, pass-gated, and worth every bit of the planning.
The South
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The National WWII Museum
America's #1-rated museum by its visitors, year after year — a six-pavilion New Orleans campus that runs the entire war, from the Higgins boats built blocks away to D-Day, the Pacific, and the new Liberation Pavilion's reckoning with what it all meant.
Space Center Houston
The museum with mission control attached — tram tours roll from the galleries into NASA's actual Johnson Space Center, past astronaut training floors to the restored Apollo control room, with a Saturn V, a shuttle piggybacked on its 747, and flown capsules.
Northeast
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston's half-million-work colossus — the country's best Japanese and Egyptian holdings outside their homelands, a Monet room to rival Paris, Sargent's murals overhead, and the glass-courted Americas wing. New England's one essential museum.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The temple atop the Rocky Steps — behind the most famous staircase in movies waits a top-five American collection: Duchamp's puzzles, a medieval cloister and a Japanese teahouse you walk through, Impressionist depth, and Gehry-renovated galleries.
West Coast
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Midwest
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