I was taken to Faver’s, a seafood restaurant in Tallahassee when I was a kid, a seafood restaurant that was widely regarded as a place you had to go if you were in the area.
Storybook Gardens at the Wisconsin Dells. i don’t remember it well except I loved it.
There was a place at Rocky Mountains National Park where people would - I believe it was at a lake - hold up peanuts in shells for birds to grab. i want to say they were Steller’s Jays but it’s been 50 years or so. They don’t let you do that anymore.
We visited Cypress Gardens in Florida in about 1974.
Tempus keeps fugit-ing right along. I blame Silver Springs demise on a certain cartoon rodent. The little bastard.
Sony Wonder Technology Lab was a tech/computing/robotics museum in Midtown Manhattan. I mainly remember the exhibit where you could insert a card into a reader and make your name travel across the room on an LED-powered “zipper sign,” which had 11-year-old me gaping in awe.
Cypress Gardens is now Legoland. Big whoop.
I suspect that today’s 11-year-olds have a higher “awe” threshold. You’d need an exhibit that would create a robot-duplicate of them, and let them watch that travel across the room!
And blow a hole in the wall! 
DogPatch USA.
(Actually in Arkansas…or was. Sad 
alas no more 
)
Yeah, that would make for a kid-magnet attraction. (And also make lots of work for contractors!)
Yup, Sea World Ohio is a place I’ve been. Epic memories of feeding the dolphins. (I was in Ohio for my dad’s cousin’s wedding. The Bride’s Dad paid for our fancy hotel room, irritating his sister (my grandmother), so she paid for everyone’s ticket to Sea World. This meant that my Dad’s brothers or their wives bought food for the dolphins for all the grandchildren, rather than just their own, and two sets of dolphin food was a lot, so I shared more with my mother than I might otherwise.
Yes, thanks to @Spoons from another SoCal kid.
You’re welcome, everybody. I found that site some years ago, and have since spent hours diving into it. Note that it is updated frequently, so after you’ve looked at all you want to see for now, check back in a week or two. There will likely be something new or changed.
But yeah. Set aside some time to explore it. Like I said, I’ve spent hours there.
My family always stopped at Pea Soup Andersen’s restaurant in Buellton, CA when traveling north. It was very touristy, and I think my dad liked it because he could fill the kids up pretty cheaply. But it closed a couple of years ago and is no more. The motel connected with the restaurant looks like it’s still there, though.
I grew up East of St. Paul, MN. In December, we’d always go downtown to see Dayton’s Christmas show, where they’d make some storybook come to life. I remember “the Polar Express” and Santa Bear in particular.
It’s possible that’s still a thing, but Dayton’s itself is long gone.
I was there several times. Never saw anyone get hurt though.
Philadelphia in the ‘60s (‘70s?) had Aquarama, a Marineland-type of aquarium. My folks still have the plate hung up in the kitchen.
Of course, that was after a visit to the Franklin Institute where you could walk around inside a GIANT HEART! Then have your hair stand up while placing your hands on the VanDerGraff Generator.
A coworker of mine visited there on 9/8/2001 and took a picture from the observation deck.
Frontier Town (in the Adirondacks). Western themed amusement park.
New York World’s Fair (1964-65)
Expo 67
The big banyan tree in Lahaina, Hawaii 
(It seems to have survived the big fire in 2025, but it is closed to tourists)
Top of the World Trade Center (Billy Crystal was up there the same time as we were) . Had dinner at Windows On The World on my birthday.
Many people loved that attraction, but it became dated. Mr Toad is still there and updated.
I liked several favorite defunct Disneyland attractions.
We used to also go to Marineland (gone), and POP (Pacific Ocean Park- gone) and Santa Claus lane-
gone- and Santa’s Village by Lake Arrowhead- mostly gone
A funny thing I found out about that- the supposed "panic’ was greatly exaggerated by newspapers, who were in a war with Radio over ad revenue.
Several attractions that Walt had a hand in are still there, altho all updated. Autopia, mr Toad, Jungle Cruise, Riverboat (pretty much unchanged), the Railroad, Carrousel, Mad tea party, Pete Pan, and more. You can spend a whole day “Walking in Walts Footsteps” (which is a several hour paid tour, and I recommend it. Last attraction Walt personally worked on was Pirates of the Caribbean.