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Places
Locations to visit, return to, or travel from
Alleys Aquariums Arboretums Arcades Bookstores Campsites Cities Colleges and Universities Convention Center Courtyards Farms Gardens Hotels Motel Museums Nature Parks Parks Race Tracks Restaurants Shopping Sport Stadiums Taverns Theaters Theme Parks Trails Water Wineries Zip Lines Zoos Of The World
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Alleys, As Narrow Side Streets, A Form Of Place

An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in the older parts of towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée) in a park or garden.[from wikipedia]

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Aquariums, As Water Creature Places

An aquarium (plural: aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aquatic reptiles such as turtles, and aquatic plants. The term, coined by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, combines the Latin root aqua, meaning water, with the suffix -arium, meaning "a place for relating to". [from wikipedia]

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Arboretums, As A Place For Trees and Other Plants

An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum (from the Latin frutex, meaning shrub), and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study.[from wikipedia]

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Arcades

Places where folks (usually youngsters) go to play mechanical or electronic games.

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Bookstores, As Places To Visit

A store specializing in sale of books, although sometimes including other miscellaneous items such as gifts.

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Campsites
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Cities, Listed by Country
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Colleges and Universities

Campuses of College, Univeristy and other learning institutions.

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Convention Center, or Conference Center, As A Building Place

A convention center (American English; conference centre outside the USA)[1] is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees. Very large venues, suitable for major trade shows, are sometimes known as exhibition centres. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms. Some large resort area hotels include a convention center. [from wikipedia]

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Courtyards, Around The World

A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky. Such spaces in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court. Both of the words court and yard derive from the same root, meaning an enclosed space. See yard and garden for the relation of this set of words.[from wikipedia]

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Farms, Around The World

Land Farms where food is produced.

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Gardens, As A Form Of Place

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. [from wikipedia]

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Hotels, and Motels
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Motel, As A Kind Of, Residence Place

A motel is a hotel designed for motorists and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined as a portmanteau contraction of "motor hotel", originates from the Milestone Mo-Tel of San Luis Obispo, California (now called the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), which was built in 1925.

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Museums
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Nature Parks, And Nature Tours

Nature parks including Safari Parks but now Zoos.Also nature tours.

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Parks, And Park Districts

Collections of Parks and related facilities. Also district that contain many parks.

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Race Tracks
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Restaurants, As Places To Eat

A restaurant or an eatery is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services, and some offer only take-out and delivery. Restaurants vary greatly in appearance and offerings, including a wide variety of cuisines and service models ranging from inexpensive fast food restaurants and cafeterias to mid-priced family restaurants, to high-priced luxury establishments. [from wikipedia]

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Shopping

Shopping Centers, Strip Malls, and Stores

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Sport Stadiums, As Places

A stadium (plural stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.[from wikipedia]

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Taverns, and Bars
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Theaters
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Theme Parks
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Trails, As Discovered Places

Trails are unpaved walkways through parks or forests.

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Water, Places

Rivers, Canals, Lakes, Bays, Seas

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Wineries

Including meaderies and champaigne makers

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Zip Lines

A ride suspened from a strung steel cable

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Zoos Of The World

Zoos and Zoological Gardens


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