Framingham is a city in eastern Massachusetts, located about 20 miles west of Boston in the MetroWest region. Its landscape combines developed neighborhoods and commercial districts with wooded areas, ponds, and former agricultural land. The Sudbury River and several smaller waterways pass through the surrounding area, while Cochituate State Park provides a large recreational lake nearby.
Holland, Michigan is home to the often photographed "Big Red Lighthouse", standing guard over the channel connecting this lake to Lake Michigan. The beachfront Holland State Park is home to a wide variety of deer and migratory birds. Don't miss Windmill Island!
Kilauea is the world's largest active volcanic mass, located southeastern Hawaii Island. The central feature of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is an elongated dome built of lava eruptions from a central crater and from lines of craters extending along east and southwest riffs or fissures.