Things to do in Ithaca

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

The Johnson Museum of Art is located inside Cornell University, just down the road. The museum features many exhibits donated by Cornell University alumni or trustees. There are special exhibitions every month.

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SUMMIT One Vanderbilt

• Enjoy open-air terrace views of Manhattan and beyond. • Experience Transcendence from above, taking your perspective to a new level. • Join us for a bite and a drink in our Nordic-themed café. △ Awaken your senses with three levels of immersive space that will challenge, inspire, and thrill. △ Be ready to surrender to new perceptions of what is possible. △ Thrilling perspective of the city in the external glass-bottomed elevator.

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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is a transnational waterfall located on the Niagara River in New York State, United States and Ontario, Canada. It is a great waterfall on the Niagara River in northeastern North America. The waterfalls have their own attractions in the United States and Canada. In Niagara Falls in Canada, you can enjoy the waterfalls from another angle. Visitors who come to watch on the American side will be shocked by the abundant and vast water vapor and majestic momentum of the waterfall..

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Top of The Rock

▴Enjoy the stunning views of New York at Rockefeller Center.New York has a thousand faces, all different. Rockefeller Center, which stands in a prime location in Manhattan, New York, is a living history of the development of New York City. The center integrates city sightseeing, free art exhibitions, specialty dining, shopping and entertainment. ▴Top of The Rock Observation Deck, located on the 69th floor of the main building of the center, has a 360-degree unobstructed panoramic view. The Beam:The Beam invites visitors to recreate “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” the iconic 1932 photo depicting 11 ironworkers lunching on a steel beam, 69 stories high, during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Follow in their fearless footsteps by buckling up for an exhilarating 12-foot ascent that rotates a breathtaking 180-degrees. Here you'll experience astonishing views of NYC's famous Central Park and beyond.

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Rockefeller Center

▴Enjoy the stunning views of New York at Rockefeller Center.New York has a thousand faces, all different. Rockefeller Center, which stands in a prime location in Manhattan, New York, is a living history of the development of New York City. The center integrates city sightseeing, free art exhibitions, specialty dining, shopping and entertainment. ▴Top of The Rock Observation Deck, located on the 69th floor of the main building of the center, has a 360-degree unobstructed panoramic view. The Beam:The Beam invites visitors to recreate “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” the iconic 1932 photo depicting 11 ironworkers lunching on a steel beam, 69 stories high, during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Follow in their fearless footsteps by buckling up for an exhilarating 12-foot ascent that rotates a breathtaking 180-degrees. Here you'll experience astonishing views of NYC's famous Central Park and beyond.

Museum of the Earth

The museum is carefully arranged by geological period, with short films in each room. Many of the fossils come from New York State, which makes these exhibits especially local. There are several fossils to touch. Can observe and talk with paleontologists in the lab.

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American Museum of Natural History

Share in the excitement of discovery with more than 40 galleries exploring the natural world and the universe at one of NYC's top destinations, the American Museum of Natural History. Highlights: • Taking the museum experience to soaring new heights, the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation showcases: The year-round Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium with up to 80 species of freeflying butterflies. The Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium, a gallery devoted to Earth's most diverse and abundant animal group. Floor-to-ceiling displays of the Museum's scientific collections spread out across three levels that help us understand the natural world and global cultures. • Explore the Museum's famous fossil halls, featuring the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world, including imposing mounts of Tyrannosaurus rex and Apatosaurus, as well as the 122-foot-long cast of a titanosaur, a recently discovered giant herbivore that lived in the forests of today's Patagonia about 100 to 95 million years ago. • Discover more than 5,000 minerals, including giant amethyst geodes and fluorescent minerals, in the spectacular Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals • Explore marine ecosystems in the immersive Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, featuring models of more than 750 animals, including the iconic 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale • Don't miss the world-renowned habitat dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals, Hall of African Mammal Halls, and others, which depict specific locations throughout the world • Learn about the evolutionary story of the human family in the Hall of Human Origins • Explore the 13-billion-year history of the universe in the galleries of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Taughannock Falls Gorge Trailhead

Ithaca Children's Garden