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Kennedy Gold Mine
You cant miss the ominous steel headframe rising 125ft from the road. Its pulleys lifted ore and miners from the bowels of the earth. Once the deepest mine, this is now a peaceful park good for a stroll. Guided tours last about 1½ hours and take you past the stamp, gold recovery mi
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Georgetown Steam Plant
The Georgetown Steam Plant, built in 1906, has one of the last working examples of the large-scale steam turbines that doubled the efficiency of electricity production and shifted the public’s view of electricity from a luxury to a standard part of modern living. The plant ceased o
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Exposition Park
A quick jaunt south of Downtown LA by DASH bus, the family-friendly Exposition Park began as an agricultural fair ground in 1872, then devolved into a magnet for the down-and-out, and finally emerged as a patch of public greenery in 1913. It contains three quality museums, a robust
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
No, those billions of dollars being printed in front of your very eyes are not the work of counterfeiters living on the lam, Bonnie-and-Clyde style, in Texas. You’ve just stumbled upon one of two places in the nation where ‘In God We Trust’ and Ben Franklin’s face are legally print
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Pfeiffer Beach
This phenomenal, crescent-shaped and dog-friendly beach is known for its huge double rock formation, through which waves crash with life-affirming power. It’s often windy, and the surf is too dangerous for swimming. But dig down into the wet sand – it’s purple! That’s because manga
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USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park
If you have to wait an hour or two for your USS Arizona Memorial tour to begin, this adjacent park harbors the moored WWII-era submarine USS Bowfin and a museum that traces the development of submarines from their origins to the nuclear age, including wartime patrol footage. Undoub
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Zoo Miami
Miamis tropical weather makes strolling around the Metrozoo almost feel like a day in the wild. Look for Asian and African elephants, rare and regal Bengal tigers prowling an evocative Hindu temple, pygmy hippos, Andean condors, a pack of hyenas, cute koalas, colobus monkeys, black
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Human History Museum
A half-mile from the parks southern entrance station, the Zion Human History Museum presents a modest exhibit of the geological and human history of Zion and its birth as a park. A 22-minute introductory video is shown every half hour. The paved Parus Trail parallels the road for 2
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Flamingo Visitor Center
The most isolated portion of the park is a squat marina where you can go on a backcountry boat tour or rent boats. Due to its isolation, this area is subject to closure during bad weather. Boat tours to Florida Bay or into the swampy backcountry run for $32.25/16.13 per adult/child
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Money Museum
Yes, museums dedicated to coin collecting do exist. Or maybe its museum (singular). Were not sure. But this museum, operated by the American Numismatic Association has gold coins from the early 19th century, Early commemorative coins from the turn of the 20th century and a few vint
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Seas with Nemo & Friends Pavilion
Kids under 10 wont want to miss the two Nemo -themed attractions at Epcots Future World. Ride a clamshell through the ocean with Nemo on Seas with Nemo & Friends and talk face-to-face with Crush in the interactive Turtle Talk with Crush , a Disney highlight. A small blue room w
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Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun
Set behind the zoo and those massive crenelated stone gates, on a cliff about two-thirds of the way up Cheyenne, is this tower named for Spencer Penroses good friend Will Rogers, who died in a plane crash coincidentally around the time of its construction. There are busts of both m
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McAuliffe
This science center is named after and dedicated to two New Hampshire astronauts. Christa McAuliffe was the schoolteacher chosen to be Americas first teacher-astronaut – she and her fellow astronauts died in the tragic explosion of the Challenger spacecraft in 1986 – and Alan B She
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Lake Louisa State Park
Located 30 minutes west of Walt Disney World, Lake Louisa is an easy getaway from the theme-park overdrive. There are several peaceful lakes, lovely beaches and 25 miles of hiking trails through fields, woods and orange groves. For boating on Dixie Lake, you can rent three-person c
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Mount Holyoke College & Gardens
The nation’s oldest women’s college (founded 1837; in South Hadley center) is bucolic and small, current enrollments average about 2000 students. The great American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted laid out the center of the parklike 800-acre campus in the late 1800s. It e
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Grays Harbor Lighthouse
Westports lighthouse used a French-made Fresnel lens until recently, when it was replaced by a simpler electronic device. To reach the lighthouse – the tallest in the state at 107ft – return to uptown Westport and head west on Ocean Ave. You can also bike or hike there along the We
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Balcony House
Tickets are required for the one-hour guided tours of Balcony House, on the east side of the Cliff Palace Loop. A visit is quite an adventure and will challenge anyone’s fear of heights or small places. You’ll be rewarded with outstanding views of Soda Canyon, 600ft below the sands
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
Founded in 1861, BAM is the country’s oldest performing-arts center and supplies New York City with its edgier works of modern dance, music and theater. The complex contains a 2109-seat opera house, an 874-seat theater, the four-screen Rose Cinemas and a 250-seat theater around the
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Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Take a soul-satisfying jaunt around this 40-acre botanic garden, devoted to California’s native flora. More than 5 miles of partly wheelchair-accessible trails meander past cacti, redwoods and wildflowers and by the old mission dam, originally built by Chumash tribespeople to irrig
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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Spains missionary presence can best be felt at the ruins of the four missions south of town: Missions Concepción (1731), San José (1720), San Juan (1731) and Espada (1745–56). Religious services are still held in the mission churches of San José, San Juan and Espada, and the mariac
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