The “America” park — its history, wars, culture, etc. Designed with legitimate museums in each zone, as well as attractions (rides & shows). There’s a large museum of particular import for each zone, along the area’s back edge.
History
People, places, events, and technological innovations.
Revolutionary Period.
Exploitation in the Antebellum South.
The Journey West: Manifest Destiny and the Oregon Trail.
Prohibition and the Great Depression.
Bonnie & Clyde speedy thrill ride: in antique car, evade cops while being shot at.
Midcentury developments (connects to the center).
War
The Civil War
Cannon crew, simulation with artillery piece and responsive screens, defending a hill from Confederate forces.
Shooting gallery, repulsing a charge from behind a stone wall, at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Great War
Laser tag in a maze of WWI trenches, with large opposing teams and bouts of rolling fog simulating chlorine gas.
Motion simulator (270-degree enclosed mobile pod with screens surrounding the exterior) giving the experience that you are part of a zeppelin crew amongst the skies above the trenches—a dogfight happens around you, and you engage (working together with your team) to defend your dirigible.
World War II
An interactive, sprawling map of the timeline, complete with every important date, battle, event, person, and place – clicking on a date’s point brings up a soundbite and a photograph.
With that are a wall of photos: some are digitized photographs and some become videos playing archival footage, with narrations and audio design.
The Cold War (connects to the center).
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Spycraft — an escape room, or a cat-and-mouse game, or a codebreaking experience, or dueling teams for surveillance and elusion?
Culture
As culture changed throughout the decades
Film, Fashion, Music, Cuisine, etcetera.
Politics
The Presidents—a wall of them, in a timeline of portraits, and each one has a video summary accompanying it describing the country and their efforts during their terms.
Civil Rights and the Counterculture (connects to the center).
Original document created 01/23/2015.