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Things to Do in Aquarium
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13 attractions
West Coast
Aquarium West Coast
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
America's #1, and it isn't close — the aquarium that invented the living kelp forest, raised the bar for every institution after it, and still runs the country's best single exhibit lineup: otters, open-ocean tuna, and deep-sea aliens.
Aquarium of the Pacific
Long Beach's Pacific portal — Southern California's biggest aquarium, organized ocean-by-ocean from sea otters to coral lagoons, with the stunning Pacific Visions wing, lorikeet feedings, and whale-watch boats at the dock outside.
Seattle Aquarium & Ocean Pavilion
The Pacific Northwest's window — Puget Sound's octopus and otters on the working waterfront, now joined by the Ocean Pavilion: a 2024 expansion whose one-way reef hall and 500,000-gallon archway reset the city's skyline-to-sea walk.
Southeast
Aquarium Southeast
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Georgia Aquarium
The biggest in America — ten million gallons in downtown Atlanta, and the only place outside Asia to swim beneath whale sharks: four of them, cruising a football-field tank past a 61-foot viewing window and a 100-foot tunnel.
Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies
The mountain-town overachiever — a top-five-ranked aquarium improbably parked in Gatlinburg, with the continent's longest underwater tunnel gliding beneath sand tigers, a penguin crawl-through, and value the coastal giants can't touch.
Tennessee Aquarium
The world's best freshwater aquarium — Chattanooga's twin glass peaks follow a raindrop from Appalachian stream to Gulf reef, with river otters, the giant catfish flathead hall, and an Ocean Journey wing of sharks and butterflies.
East Coast
Aquarium East Coast
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National Aquarium
Baltimore's glass-pyramid icon — the Inner Harbor landmark that ascends through a dripping tropical rainforest to ring-shaped shark and ray tanks, with an Australian river gorge, dolphins, and the best one-way flow design in the field.
New England Aquarium
Boston's spiral around a four-story ocean — the brutalist harbor classic where a ramp corkscrews up the 200,000-gallon Giant Ocean Tank past its coral reef and celebrity sea turtle, with penguins filling the ground floor below.
Mystic Aquarium
New England's beluga home — one of the only U.S. aquariums keeping the white whales, in outdoor habitats you can watch for free-range hours, plus African penguins, seals, rays, and the storybook seaport town around it.
Gulf Coast
Aquarium Gulf Coast
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Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
New Orleans' riverfront revival — rebuilt in 2023 with the Insectarium under one roof, keeping the Gulf rig's sharks, the Amazon's piranhas, the white alligator's swamp, and Mississippi views from the French Quarter's edge.
Texas State Aquarium
The Gulf's Texas-sized teller — Corpus Christi's bayfront anchor with the Caribbean Journey wing's shark-filled sea and cenote, dolphin presentations, a working wildlife-rescue hospital, and the USS Lexington floating next door.
The Florida Aquarium
Tampa's wetlands-to-reef storyteller — follow Florida's water from mangrove roots and wading birds under the glass dome to the coral reef's sharks, with a working coral-rescue lab, wild dolphin bay cruises, and Sparkman Wharf next door.
Midwest
Aquarium Midwest
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