Seabreeze Park 4600 Culver Road, Rochester, NY 14506, 585-323-1900, 800-395-2500, This family oriented park offers a variety of amusements and a water park, with over seventy five attractions in all. more... 

Campbell Whittlesey Museum 123 South Fizhugh Street, Rochester, NY 14614, 585-546-7029, This restored 1830s home is known as one of the finest examples of Greek revival architecture in America, and is filled with furnishings that recreate the era of its origin.  more... 

Historic City Hall 30 Church Street, Rochester, NY 14056, 585-428-7000, This historic building is picturesque and consists of four stories, an open air atrium, marble arches, stone sculptures and ornate council chambers. more... 

Susan B. Anthony House 17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY 14056, 585-235-6124, This Victorian home was the headquarters for the historic women's suffrage movement and the scene of Susan B. Anthony's infamous arrest in 1872 for voting. The house, now a National Historic Landmark, functions as a museum with exhibits tracing the suffrage movement. It is part of the nine-block Susan B. Anthony Square, which is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places, an intact middle class neighborhood from the Victorian era of the 19th Century. more... 

Woodside Mansion 485 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14056, 585-271-2705, Recognized by the Rochester Historical Society, this mansion is noted for its distinguished Greek Revival architecture. 

Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse 70 Lighthouse Street, Rochester, NY 14612, 585-621-6179, This second-oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes was built in 1822, and sits perched on a looming bluff that overlooks the mouth of the Genesee River. The forty-foot octagonal sandstone tower is accompanied by a two-room lighthouse keeper’s cottage and a well; visitors can tour the surroundings, climb the tower, and visit the museum located on the first floor of the keeper’s cottage that houses displays regarding the lighthouse itself, lighthouse lore, navigation, and the history of the region. more... 

Mount Hope Cemetery 585-461-3494, One can explore this historic cemetery that includes the final resting places of such historical figures as Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas.

University of Rochester Theatre Poster Collection 107 Todd Union Building, Rochester, NY 14627, Rush Rhees Library, 585-275-4477, Found in the library on the campus of the University of Rochester, this unique collection features one hundred thirty one posters that advertised coming attraction to Rochester theatres as far back as the early 1880s. The historic posters advertise for many productions in the late Nineteenth Century, including vaudeville, melodramas, comedies and dramas.  more...

Centre at High Falls 60 Brown's Race, Rochester, NY 14614, High Falls District, 585-325-2030, The Centre at High Falls includes an array of exhibits that explore and elucidate a variety of themes and matter of interest, including push button exhibits that will acquaint one with the legends of Rochester, a simulated taxi ride that explores the reaches of the city, a simulated race way, and 3-D exhibits that explore geology, technology, culture, and creativity. There is also an old operational forge on the grounds where one can learn about the process of smelting and metal work. In addition to the spectacular High Falls that plummet over a ninety-five-foot cliff in the Genesee River, the Genesee River Gorge is at night set ablaze with the spectacular artificial flashes and luminescence of a thirty minute laser light show and a fireworks display. All in all, there is much to be found in and around this centre.  

George Eastman House (circa 1902-1905) 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607, 585-271-3361, Once the estate of George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, this restored Colonial Revival mansion is situated on 12 and a half acres and is open to the public. Visitors of the International Museum of Photography and Film can see the home, gardens, a state-of-the-art archives building, two theatres, a study center, exhibition galleries, and the Discovery Room. The main purpose of the museum is to tell the story of the history of photography and motion pictures over the last 150 years. more... 

Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14056, 585-473-7720, The Memorial Art Gallery features exhibits of artworks, some of which verge on being immemorial, with fifty centuries of art on display; the relics and art displayed span from the mists of antiquity to modern masterpieces. Proud of their well-balanced collections that represent a multitude of styles and periods, the museum is host to traveling world-class exhibitions, as well as its own varied permanent collection of artworks. In addition to the works of the old masters that one can find here, there are works that represent the cutting edge of avant garde art, interactive displays, and contemporary crafts exhibits that illustrate the vitality of the culture and inhabitants of the present day Rochester region. more... 

Oxford Gallery 267 Oxford Street, Rochester, NY 14607, 585-271-5885, The Oxford Gallery brings the best in contemporary art to the Rochester area, with several thousand works in a collection that includes paintings, prints, sculpture and mixed media works that represent over sixty artists that have established either regional or national acclaim; in addition, the gallery offers a nice selection of both American and European paintings that date from earlier periods. more... 

Rochester Museum and Science Center 657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14505, 585-271-4320, The Rochester Museum and Science Centre features exhibits that are related to history, anthropology and natural sciences. In addition to the multifarious items that can be viewed in the museum’s varied collection, the Strasenburgh Planetarium features shows that point out the awesomeness of the universe, through features that educate one about the stars, black holes, the solar system, and the cosmology of the universe as we know it. more... 

Stone Tolan House Museum 2370 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14506, 585-546-7029, The Stone-Tolan House endeavours to recreate the activities and ways of life from the times when this area was the edge of the frontier and bordered on the wild expanses that lay to the west; both the activities that would be found in a typical household of the era, and the life that would have been centred around a rural tavern in Brighton between 1790 and 1820, are replicated and explicated at this museum. more... 

Ellwanger Garden of Landmark Society 625 Mount Hope, Rochester, NY 14506, 585-546-7029, This perennial garden dates back to 1876, is located in an historic village, and offers one the chance to visit a Victorian-style English Garden with a quite extensive collection of peonies, as well as a wide range of other flowers and flora. more... 

Seneca Park Zoo 2222 Saint Paul Street, Rochester, NY 14621, 585-336-7200, The Seneca Park Zoo features educational programs, participates in conservation programs, and displays a wide variety of animals that represent the great biological diversity to be found in such families and categories as fish, invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.  more... 

Colonial Belle 400 Packetts Landing, Fairport, NY 14450, South East Rochester on the Erie Canal at Fairport, 585-223-9470, The Colonial Belle provides scenic cruises, lunches, dinner & private charters on the historic Erie Canal. It features a capacity of 149 passengers. Their lower deck is enclosed with a full bar and the upper deck is open air for great viewing. more...

Corn Hill Navigation 12 Corn Hill Terrace, Rochester, NY 14506, 585-262-5661, Corn Hill Navigation offers daily and special excursions for exploring the area in and around Rochester. 

Corn Hill Waterfront and Navigation Foundation 250 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14506, 585-262-5661, This foundation features a replica of an 1880s canal boat, tour excursions, and brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert cruises. 

Force Seven Charters PO Box 26593, Rochester, NY 14506, 585-349-7399, Force Seven Charters offers daily and specialty charters that depart from Spencerport.

Sam Patch Tour Boat 250 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14056, 585-262-5661, Sam Patch offers historic and scenic cruises on the Genesee River and the Erie Canal.