Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Now restored, the impressive building is home to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and provides a wonderful venue for its many musical events. Families especially enjoy taking the kids to the Yuletide Celebration concert. Though seating is limited, you can scout out a table on the upper level balcony and listen to midday concerts by local musicians. Or take your lunch outdoors and enjoy it on the plaza.
Teens find the place entrancingly bohemian.
This is the nation's fifth largest cemetery, and its rolling, expansive grounds can provide a morning or afternoon's worth of history. You'll find the graves of bank robber John Dillinger, President Benjamin Harrison and Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley. Indiana Statehouse Market St. at Capitol Ave. Before its centennial renovation in 1988, prison inmates occasionally painted the Statehouse's interior walls a drab green, and little attention was given to its historic features. From the governor's office, which features a desk made of teak decking from the USS Indiana, to the Supreme Court chambers with original brass spittoons, the Statehouse now evokes a feeling for the city's long history as a seat of government.