Website: www.reaganlibrary.gov/
Location: Simi Valley, Calif. (Reagan's birthplace: Tampico, Ill., 1911)
Opened: 1991
Attendance: 356,683 (more than 400,000 counting attendance at lectures and public programs)
Admission: 21 adults; $18 seniors
Bestselling biography: "An American Life" by Ronald Reagan
Hot-selling souvenir items: Leather-bound edition of the Reagan diaries; "There is no limit" and "It can be done" desk plaques.
Lesser-known fact: Because of President Reagan's fondness for jelly beans (he began eating them to stop smoking), the library sells a loft of Jelly Belly products. The company created blue (blueberry-flavored) jelly beans for his presidential inauguration so the White House would have red, white, and blue candies. ... When President Reagan first saw the Simi Valley land on which the library sits, he fell in love with the setting – the surrounding mountains, wide-open spaces, and horse trails.
