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Fort McKavett State Historical Park
General William Tecumseh Sherman once called this fort along the San Saba River ‘the prettiest post in Texas.’ Today, Fort McKavett State Historical Park, about 75 miles southeast of San Angelo, preserves the striking ruins of a once-important fort. Fort McKavett was established by
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National Inventors Hall of Fame & Museum
This museum, in the atrium of the US Patent and Trademark Office, tells the history of the United States patent. Step inside to see where the story started in 1917 in Memphis, Tennessee, when a wholesale grocer named Clarence Saunders invented and patented what he called ‘self-serv
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Ludlow Massacre Memorial
In 1914 striking migrant workers were living in a large tent city in Ludlow. After a series of conflicts, the Colorado National Guard were called in. An ensuing clash saw the tent city razed, resulting in the deaths of 21 people – including two women and 11 children. This well-exec
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Seattle Asian Art Museum
In stately Volunteer Park, this outpost of the Seattle Art Museum houses the extensive art collection of Dr Richard Fuller, who donated this late art deco gallery (a fine example of Streamline Moderne architecture) to the city in 1932. Spread over one floor and beautifully present
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Touro Synagogue
Despite the fact that Jews were officially banned from New Orleans under the Code Noir (Black Code), which was in effect from 1724 until the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, they have been calling the Crescent City home since the 18th century. Founded in 1828, Touro is the city’s oldest
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Integratron
The story behind this wacky landmark is that visitors from Venus arrived in a flying saucer and told former aerospace engineer George van Tassel of a process for cell rejuvenation involving a dome based on principles of sacred geometry. He began work on it in 1953, calling the dome
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Glacial Potholes
Stones trapped swirling in the roiling Deerfield River have been grinding into the rock bed at this location ever since the ice age. The result: 50 near-perfect circles in the riverbed, including the largest known glacial pothole (39ft diameter) in the world. A hydroelectric dam o
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Octagon Museum
The apex of the Federal style of architecture pioneered in the USA also happens to be the oldest museum in America dedicated to architecture and design. Designed by William Thornton (the Capitol’s first architect) in 1800, the building is a symmetrically winged structure designed t
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Noguchi Museum
The art and the building here are the work of Japanese-American sculptor, furniture designer and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi, famous for iconic lamps and coffee tables, as well as elegant abstract stone sculptures. They are on display here, in serene concrete galleries and a
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Museum of American Finance
Money makes this interactive museum go round. It focuses on historic moments in American financial history, and its permanent collections include rare historic currency (including Confederate currency used by Americas southern states during the Civil War), stock and bond certificat
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Hammering Man
Although not unique to Seattle, Hammering Man, the 48ft-high metal sculpture that guards the entrance to the Seattle Art Museum on the corner of 1st Ave and University St, has become something of a city icon since it was raised in 1992. The sculpture, whose moving motor-powered ar
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Dinosaur Park
About halfway between Austin Bergstrom Airport and Bastrop, prehistoric creatures walk the earth once more at the Dinosaur Park. Well, they dont exactly walk, but they do stand there in all their life-sized glory. And if the shrieks coming from the children wandering the paths thro
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LA Louver
The best art gallery in Venice, and arguably the best in all of LA, LA Louver was established by Peter Gouls in 1975, and since 1994 has been housed in a landmark building designed by Frederick Fisher. Its a modern and contemporary art gallery featuring rotating, museum-quality exh
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Stiltsville
This collection of seven houses that stand on pilings out in Biscayne Bay has been around since the early ‘30s. You can view them, way out in the distance, from the southern shore of the Bill Baggs park, or take a boat tour out there with the illustrious historian Dr Paul George. I
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Marvel Super Hero Island
Bright, loud and fast moving, Marvel Super Hero Island is sensory overload and a thrill-lovers paradise. Dont miss the motion simulator Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man (Express Pass recommended), where super villains rendered in incredible 3-D are on the loose, jumping on your car
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Manoa Heritage Center
Hidden on a private family’s estate, the centerpiece of this unique site is a stone-walled agricultural heiau (temple) surrounded by Hawaiian ethnobotanical gardens, which include rare native and Polynesian introduction plants. Take your turn playing konane (a Hawaiian version of c
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Malibu Lagoon State Beach
This salty marsh is where Malibu Creek meets the ocean, attracting migratory birds and their human admirers. Which is why it was undergoing a major native species restoration at research time. 50,000 individual plants of roughly a dozen native marsh species have been planted, tempo
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Hayden Tract
Architecture fans gravitate to the block where Eric Owen Moss has turned a worn-out industrial compound into eye-popping offices. The Samitaur building at 3529 Hayden looks like an alien spacecraft made of concrete steel and glass. Imagine your office building were a Transformer. J
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University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, by the river southeast of Minneapolis center, is one of the USAs largest campuses, with some 50,000 students. Most of the campus is in the East Bank neighborhood. Dinkytown, based at 14th Ave SE and 4th St SE, is dense with student cafes and bookshops.
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Villa Aurora
High in the hills above Sunset Blvd, Lion Feuchtwanger’s old home, complete with a 1927 pipe organ (yes, there is an organ room), thick timber-beamed ceilings and miraculous sea views, was once a gathering place for European artists and intellectuals in exile. Folks like Bertholt B
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