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Forestiere Underground Gardens
If you see only one thing in Fresno, make it this intriguing historic landmark, two blocks east of Hwy 99. The gardens are the singular result of Sicilian immigrant Baldassare Forestiere, who dug out some 70 acres beneath the hardpan soil to plant citrus trees, starting in 1906. Th
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Border Patrol Museum
At first, this may seem like a weird little niche museum, but the more time you spend in west Texas, the more you recognize the Border Patrol as an integral part of the culture. Theres not much nuance to the exhibits – it feels like they just stuck some of the more interesting stuf
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Blair House
The 1824 Blair House has been the official presidential guesthouse since 1942, when Eleanor Roosevelt got sick of tripping over dignitaries in the White House. A plaque on the front fence commemorates the bodyguard killed here while protecting President Truman from a 1950 assassina
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Page Museum & La Brea Tar Pits
Mammoths and saber-toothed cats used to roam LAs savannah in prehistoric times. We know this because of an archaeological trove of skulls and bones unearthed at La Brea Tar Pits, one of the world’s most fecund and famous fossil sites. Thousands of Ice Age critters met their maker b
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Cliff Palace
The only way to see the superb Cliff Palace is to take the hour-long ranger-led tour. The tour retraces the steps taken by the Ancestral Puebloans – visitors must climb down a stone stairway and four 10ft ladders. This grand engineering achievement, with 217 rooms and 23 kivas, pro
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Hells Kitchen
For years, the far west side of Midtown was a working-class jumble of tenements and food warehouses known as Hells Kitchen – supposedly its name was muttered by a cop in reaction to a riot in the neighborhood in 1881. A 1990s economic boom seriously altered its character and the ar
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David May Monument
The stone tablet commemorating the first ever May Department Store anchored in front of 314 Harrison Ave is a cool sight for Gen X-ers or older, or anyone who has ever been held hostage by a mother, grandmother, wife or girlfriend in a May store (a Western US chain bought out by Ro
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October Mountain State Forest
Most out-of-towners who venture to the Berkshires head to the Mt Greylock State Reservation to see the states highest peak, and thus leave October Mountain State Forest, a 16,127-acre state park and the largest tract of green space in Massachusetts, to the locals. Hidden amid the
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Chinese Temple
This restored temple and museum offers a fascinating glimpse into Orovilles Chinese legacy well worth exploring. Built in 1863, it served the Chinese community, which built the areas levees and at its peak numbered 10,000. Inside is an unrivaled collection of 19th-century stage fin
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Belmont Park
This old-style family amusement park at the southern end of Mission Beach has been here since 1925, and when it was threatened with demolition in the mid-1990s, community action saved it. Now there’s a large indoor pool, known as the Plunge , and the Giant Dipper , a classic wooden
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Vermont Ski & Snowboard Museum
Located in an 1818 meeting house that was rolled to its present spot by oxen in the 1860s, this museum is an inspired tribute to skiing and snowboarding history. It holds much more than an evolution of equipment (including 75 years of Vermont ski lifts) and a chance to chuckle at w
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Queens Museum
The Queens Museum is one of the citys most unexpected pleasures. Its most famous installation is the Panorama of New York City, a gob-smacking 9335-sq-ft miniature New York City, with all buildings accounted for and a 15-minute dusk-to-dawn light simulation. The museum also hosts t
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
Big Bird, Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe and Aretha Franklin are among the stars being sought out, worshipped, photographed and stepped on along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Since 1960 more than 2400 performers – from legends to bit-part players – have been honored with a pink-marble side
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UNLV Special Collections
Lots of memorabilia gets cast off in this ahistorical town. Thankfully, some of it ends up here, where it’s closely guarded and housed by the university. The Lied Library holds a pit boss’ ransom of books, photos, maps, posters, manuscripts and much more from the city’s early, hurl
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Skutumpah & Johnson Canyon Rds
The most westerly route through the monument, the unpaved Skutumpah Rd (scoot-em -paw) heads southwest from Cottonwood Canyon Rd near Kodachrome Basin State Park. First views are of the southern end of Bryce Canyons Pink Cliffs . A great little slot-canyon hike, accessible to young
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Pershing Square
The hub of Downtown’s historic core, Pershing Sq was LA’s first public park in 1866 and is now a postmodern concrete patch enlivened by public art, summer concerts, a holiday-season ice rink and the hulking 1923 Millennium Biltmore Hotel . LA’s most illustrious defender of the gran
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Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
Elvis was here. Formerly the Las Vegas Hilton – and before that, the International Hotel – this classy casino-resort opened in 1969 and quickly became famous when the King made his big comeback on the hotels stage in the late 1960s and into the early 70s, booking more than 700 sold
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Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Widely considered the father of landscape design, Frederick Law Olmsted ran his operation from his home Fairsted, which is now a National Historic Site. The gorgeous grounds are open to casual callers. Take a tour to visit Olmsted’s home and office, which remain as they were a cent
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Brickell Ave Bridge
Miami Vice wasn’t all exaggeration; drug-runners zipped under this bridge in power boats during a high speed chase with DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) agents on the day it reopened. The bridge crosses the Miami River, and cars pass under a 17ft bronze statue of a Tequesta wa
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Smoki Museum
This pueblo-style museum displays Southwestern Native American objects – baskets, pottery, kachina dolls – dating from prehistoric times to the present. One surprising exhibit addresses the true origins of the Smoki tribe. The tribe was a philanthropic society created by white Pres
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