Celebrate Women's History Month with these 10 destinations.
Central NY
You’ve reached perusing altitude, from the site of the first women’s-rights convention in 1848, to the Susan B. Anthony House and Museum, to the former home of pioneering suffragist and abolitionist, Matilda Joslyn Gage.
3 to see
- Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls
- National Susan B. Anthony House and Museum, Rochester
- Matilda Joslyn Gage Home, Fayetteville
Philadelphia
Philly will forever be associated with our Founding Fathers, but even before Seneca Falls, our sisters were making history in the City of Brotherly Love, whether it was sewing the first stars and stripes, or sowing the seeds of suffrage and women’s rights activism.
4 to explore
- Betsy Ross House
- Rittenhouse Square
- The Alice Paul Institute, Mount Laurel NJ
- Birthplace of Louisa May Alcott
San Francisco
Women’s History Month started in 1978 as a weeklong celebration in nearby Sonoma County, and the Bay Area has been defined by women who made their mark with everything from architecture to zucchini.
4 to explore
- International Museum of Women
- The Women’s Building
- Julia Morgan’s Chapel of Chimes, Oakland
- Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park, Richmond CA
New York City
From Fearless Girl to Lady Liberty, the eyes of the world are on the formidable women of NYC. It’s where Dorothy Parker penned poems, Alice Austen snapped her shutter and Nina Simone crooned nightly in the Village.
4 to explore
- Gloria Steinem’s bench in Central Park
- Joan of Arc statue in Riverside Park
- Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, Brooklyn Museum
- Alice Austen House Museum
Houston
A launch pad for astronauts, aviators, athletes and entertainers, this is where Billie Jean King won the Battle of the Sexes, Sally Ride got ride-ready, and the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame gives eternal props to Bessie Coleman, Azellia White and other fly women.
3 to see
- The Pioneer Memorial Log House
- Space Center Houston’s Astronaut Gallery
- Texas Aviation Hall of Fame at the Lone Star Flight Museum
Albuquerque
From artists and aviators to activists and entrepreneurs, women have earned legendary status in the Land of Enchantment. Seventy-five of them (and counting!) are celebrated on historic markers around Albuquerque and beyond.
3 to see
- New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative
- Georgia O’Keeffe Museum & Research Center
- Madonna of the Trail Monument
Boston
The home of the Freedom Trail is also home to the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail—which introduces more than 200 women—from Abigail Adams and Amelia Earhart, to Louisa May Alcott, Anne Sullivan and Joan Benoit—and important women’s historical sites.
3 to see
- Boston Women’s Heritage Trail
- The Boston Women’s Memorial
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Denver
The Mile-High City celebrates its trailblazing women— including its first historic preservationist (and perhaps most famous Titanic survivor) and the first female African- American doctor (who delivered some 7,000 babies over a half-century) through museums and a new mural.
4 to explore
- Molly Brown House Museum
- Center for Colorado Women’s History
- Justina Ford Home/Black American West Museum
- Justina Ford Mural in Five Points Historic District
San Juan
Women have been integral to Puerto Rican society from the Taino tribal chiefs, to writers, intellectuals, artists, activists and politicians—including Felisa Rincón Marreno de Gautier (the first female Mayor of a capital city in the Americas) and suffragist Ana Roque de Duprey (who helped found the University of Puerto Rico in 1903).
3 to see
- Casa Museo Felisa Rincón Marreno de Gautier
- La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorriqueña
- Casa Dra. Concha Melendez Ramirez Museum & Research Center
Isla de Mujeres
This Caribbean paradise was the sacred space and home base for Ixchel—the Mayan goddess of the moon, fertility, medicine and happiness—and her court of women. In ancient times, Mayan women made annual pilgrimages here, but you can just grab a ferry from Cancun.
3 to see
- Goddess Ixchel temple ruins at Punta Sur
- Goddess Ixchel statue at Punta Sur
- MUSA Isla Mujeres Underwater Museum