U.S. News Insider Tip: Enhance your trip to the zoo by taking a boat ride to get there. You can get there by a local passenger ferry year-round and from April to October, you can take a steamboat.

If you want to visit a drive-through zoo ... have the chance to drive up right alongside one of these amazing animals.

Travel + Leisure magazine included the Cincinnati Zoo, aka the home of Fiona the hippo ... invest in research projects to help endangered animals, or have release programs to help get animals ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao made their public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. on Jan. 24 The Giant Panda ...