Hawaii (island) - Places of Interest

Places of Interest

  • Akaka Falls; the second tallest waterfall on the island.
  • Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden houses many endangered endemic plants.
  • East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center
  • Hawaiʻi Tropical Botanical Garden
  • Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park; comprising the active volcanoes Kīlauea and Mauna Loa
  • Huliheʻe Palace; a royal palace in Kailua-Kona
  • ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi in Hilo
  • Ka Lae, the southernmost point in the United States
  • Laupahoehoe Train Museum
  • Lyman House Memorial Museum in Hilo
  • Manuka State Wayside Park
  • Mauna Kea Observatory; Mauna Kea Observatories
  • Nani Mau Gardens
  • Onizuka Center for International Astronomy
  • Onizuka Space Center; museum dedicated to the memory of Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka located in Kona's Keahole Airport
  • Pacific Tsunami Museum overlooking Hilo Bay
  • Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo in Hilo
  • Pua Mau Place Arboretum and Botanical Garden
  • Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
  • Rainbow Falls State Park
  • Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens
  • Umauma Falls
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens
  • World Botanical Gardens
  • Waipiʻo Valley
  • Wao Kele o Puna

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