Watching the Minnesota Zoo's entertaining sea lion & bird shows while also visiting the red panda forest & llama trek.

Visiting Como Zoo's sloth, tiger, polar bear, & sea lions while admiring the Washed Ashore & Sparky sea lion sculptures.

Collecting trading cards at Virginia Zoo and viewing the baby orangutan, tapirs, cheetahs, hyraxes, & Patagonian cavies.

Documenting the farm-in-the-zoo, nature boardwalk, and gift shop at the free Lincoln Park Zoo in downtown Chicago.

Viewing red pandas, pygmy hippo, baby zebra, grizzly bears, meerkats, & otters at Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago's free zoo.

There is still much to see on the second floor of the Haan not to mention the outside sculpture garden and native flora.

Housed in a 1904 mansion from the World's Fair, the Haan features Indiana paintings & ceramics plus antique furniture.

Exquisite metalwork & jewelry, eclectic teapots, & whimsical four-legged friends at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette.

Dramatic prairie dogs, adorable wallabies, colorful butterflies, & cuddly baby goats at Lafayette's Columbian Park Zoo.

Red pandas galore! Baby lion & gorilla! Playful otters & sleepy tigers! Experience cuteness overload at Zoo Knoxville!

Visiting the California State Capitol Museum, watching the CA State Congress in session, and exploring the Capitol area.

Touring the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento, which has served as governor's office, orphanage, and historic park.

SacZoo's baby capybaras, red pandas, cheetahs, orangutans, okapis, Himalayan monals, & animatronic dinosaurs on display!

Watching local Illinois wildlife at Cosley Zoo including frisky raccoons, lynxes, coyotes, fox, deer, & sandhill cranes.

Viewing contemporary art at the Rockford Art Museum and the 85th Annual Young Artist Show featuring high school artists.

Plenty of cuteness from red pandas, cheetahs, lemurs, wallabies, & penguins. Also, a white wolf, white peacock, & pumas.

Picture day for Miller Park Zoo's resident red pandas, snow leopard, dwarf mongeese, giant anteater, otter, & wallaroos.

Peoria Zoo's highlights include a tree shrew, tiger, baby mandrill, swift foxes & a different style of Chinese lanterns.

Red pandas, sand cats, Andean bears, fennec foxes, & a two-toed sloth in South Bend amid a backdrop of Chinese lanterns.

Watching a Himalayan red panda chilling w/ a muntjac, Chinese red pandas eating, & Tasmanian devils running in circles!