11 real sites worth the drive — the state capitol, battlefields, monuments, and founding-era landmarks — each with why it actually matters, not just a pin on a map.
New Hampshire State House
Concord, NH
The oldest state capitol in the nation where the legislature still meets in its original chambers, in Concord.
Get Directions →Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Cornish, NH
The home and studio of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whose work shaped some of the nation's most famous monuments.
Get Directions →Mount Washington
Sargent's Purchase, NH
The highest peak in the Northeast, and some of the worst weather on the planet.
Get Directions →Daniel Webster Birthplace
Franklin, NH
The farmhouse where Daniel Webster, senator, secretary of state and defender of the Union, was born in 1782.
Get Directions →Canterbury Shaker Village
Canterbury, NH
A Shaker village founded in 1792, with original buildings showing the community's craft and inventions.
Get Directions →Strawbery Banke Museum
Portsmouth, NH
Ten acres of homes and gardens in one of America's oldest neighborhoods, settled in the 1600s, shown across three centuries.
Get Directions →American Independence Museum
Exeter, NH
A museum holding an original Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence, found in Exeter in 1985.
Get Directions →Fort Constitution
New Castle, NH
The site of Fort William and Mary, raided by Patriots in December 1774 for gunpowder, one of the first acts of the Revolution.
Get Directions →Franklin Pierce Homestead
Hillsborough, NH
The 1804 house built by Governor Benjamin Pierce, where his son, the 14th president Franklin Pierce, grew up.
Get Directions →USS Albacore Museum
Portsmouth, NH
A 1953 research submarine whose teardrop hull became the model for modern submarines.
Get Directions →Old Man of the Mountain Memorial
Franconia, NH
A memorial where steel profilers recreate the granite face that watched over Franconia Notch until it fell in 2003.
Get Directions →New Hampshire has 11 sites on our list: New Hampshire State House, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Mount Washington, Strawbery Banke Museum, Franklin Pierce Homestead, American Independence Museum, and more — spanning state capitols, historic sites, founding era sites, presidential sites.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish. The quiet workshop behind some of the grand civic art you'll see on the rest of this list.
Yes — The oldest state capitol in the nation where the legislature still meets in its original chambers, in Concord. First in the nation for presidential primaries — and its own capitol never had to move or rebuild either.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Mount Washington, Strawbery Banke Museum — hands-on history that works for a family day trip.
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