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Texas Memorial Museum
We all know how kids feel about dinosaurs, and this natural history museum is the perfect place for them to indulge their fascination. Look up to see the swooping skeleton of the Texas Pterosaur – one of the most famous dino finds ever. This impressively humongous Cretaceous-era fl
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Drum Barracks Civil War Museum
This is the only surviving Civil War–era US army structure in Southern California. It’s filled with artifacts from the years 1861–66 when this was a training center and supply depot for battlegrounds in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, and it’s run by a proper history l
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DT Fleming Beach Park
Surrounded by ironwood trees and backed by an old one-room schoolhouse, this sandy crescent looks like an outpost from another era. In keeping with its Hawaiian nature, the beach is the domain of wave riders. Experienced surfers and bodysurfers find good action here, especially in
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French Cable Station Museum
Today’s multibillion-dollar telecommunications industry owes a debt of gratitude to Cape Cod’s Atlantic shore. The first cable connection between Europe and the US was established in 1879 by the French Telegraph Company on a windswept bluff in Eastham. When conditions there proved
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Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum
This homespun museum occupies the former residence of the sugar mill’s superintendent. There’s the usual display of industrial machinery, including a working model of a cane-crushing plant, but what lingers afterward is the human story. One exhibit traces how the sons of missionari
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Bunker Hill Monument
This 220ft granite obelisk monument commemorates the turning-point battle that was fought on the surrounding hillside on June 17, 1775. Ultimately, the Redcoats prevailed, but the victory was bittersweet, as they lost more than one-third of their deployed forces, while the colonist
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Astor Place
This square is named after the Astor family, who built an early New York fortune on beaver pelts (check out the tiles in the wall of the Astor Place subway platform) and lived on Colonnade Row, just south of the square; four of the original nine marble-faced, Greek revival residenc
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San Antonio Botanical Gardens
This expertly tended, 33-acre garden complex showcases native Texas flora. There are also a fragrance garden and a wonderful conservatory, with a bit of everything from equatorial rainforest to alpine flowers to a tropical lagoon. Call or go online for a calendar of special events
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Moana Surfrider Hotel
Christened the Moana Hotel when it opened in 1901, this beaux-arts plantation-style inn was once the haunt of Hollywood movie stars, aristocrats and business tycoons. The historic hotel embraces a seaside courtyard with a big banyan tree and a wraparound veranda, where island music
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Columbus Tower
If these copper-clad walls could talk, theyd name-drop shamelessly. Its original occupant was political boss Abe Rueff, ousted in 1907 and sent to San Quentin for bribing city supervisors. Grammy-winning folk group The Kingston Trio bought the tower in the 1960s, and the Grateful D
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Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park
This military fort, 4.5 miles northeast of Kodiak, off Monashka Bay Rd, was built by the US Army during WWII for a Japanese invasion that never came. In the end, Kodiak’s lousy weather kept the Japanese bombers away from the island. The fort is now a 186-acre state historical park,
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Golisano Childrens Museum of Naples
Designed by kids (and child psychologists) for kids, its hardly surprising that this interactive childrens museum is a big hit. At its center a trolley takes kids to different exhibits, including a virtual pond, where they can observe fish and growing water plants, and a produce ma
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Georgetown Waterfront Park
The park is a favorite with couples on first dates, families on an evening stroll and power players showing off their big yachts. Benches dot the way, where you can sit and watch the rowing teams out on the Potomac River. Alfresco restaurants cluster near the harbor at 31st St NW.
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Lost Continent
Magic and myth from across the seas and the pages of fantasy books inspire this mystical corner of the park. Here youll find dragons and unicorns, psychic readings and fortune-tellers. And dont be startled if that fountain talks to you as you walk past. The Mystic Fountain banters
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Shipwreck Beach
Unless you’re an expert surfer, bodyboarder or bodysurfer, keep your feet dry at Shipwrecks. Instead, come for an invigorating walk along the half-mile crescent of light-gold sand. You’ll have some company, as the Grand Hyatt overlooks much of the beach along Keoneloa Bay. Row afte
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Gamble House
It’s the exquisite attention to detail that impresses most at the Gamble House, a 1908 masterpiece of craftsman architecture built by Charles and Henry Greene for Procter & Gamble–heir David Gamble. The entire home is a work of art, its foundation, furniture and fixtures all un
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Landmark Center
Downtowns turreted 1902 Landmark Center used to be the federal courthouse, where gangsters such as Alvin Creepy Karpis were tried; plaques by the various rooms show who was brought to justice here. In addition to the citys visitor center, the building also contains a couple of smal
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Liberty Square
The ramblin 19th-century mansion houses Haunted Mansion , another classic favorite piece of low-on-thrill and high-on-silly fun, and the only real ride in Liberty Sq. Cruise slowly past the haunted dining room, where apparitions dance across the stony floor, but beware of those hit
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Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Hordes of beer snobs gather at the birthplace of the nationally distributed Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Schwarber, a Chico-only black ale. Also for sale are the ‘Beer Camp’ collaborations (www.beercamp.sierranevada.com), short-run craft beers brewed by über-beer nerds at invitation-
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Renwick Gallery
Part of the Smithsonian diaspora, the Renwick Gallery is set in a stately 1859 mansion and exhibits a superb collection of American crafts and decorative-art pieces. Alas, its closed until early 2016 for infrastructure upgrades. When it reopens, youll see the ‘crafts’ here straddle
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