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Sonoma Barracks
The adobe Sonoma Barracks was built by Vallejo between 1836 and 1840 to house Mexican troops. Today, interpretive displays describe life during the Mexican and American periods. The Barracks became the capital of a rogue nation on June 14, 1846, when American settlers, of varying s
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Looking like theyre either emerging from or being absorbed by the mountain, the stony faces of past presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt - carved 60ft tall in the granite of a Black Hills outcrop - are one of the most famous images
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Mound House
On skinny Estero Island, the Mound House is one of the oldest standing structures in Lee County. Built by the Gilbert family, members of the Koreshan sect, in 1889, it sits atop a Calusa mound (hence the name) abutting a pretty mangrove forest. This humble dwelling is a veritable c
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National Museum of the Pacific War
This museum complex consists of three war-centric galleries: the Admiral Nimitz Museum , chronicling the life and career of Fredericksburgs most famous son; the George HW Bush Gallery of the Pacific War , a large, impressive building housing big planes, big boats and big artillery;
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Ochre Court
Designed by Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1892, Ochre Court offers a grand view of the sea from its soaring three-story hallway. Elsewhere you can find a rainbow of stained glass, pointed arches, gargoyles and other emblems of an architecture inspired by a medieval (and mythical
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Goblin Valley State Park
A Salvador Dali-esque melted-rock fantasy, a valley of giant stone mushrooms, an otherworldly alien landscape or the results of a cosmological acid trip? No matter what you think the stadium-like valley of stunted hoodoos resembles, one thing’s for sure – the 3654-acre Goblin Valle
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Fort Sumter
The first shots of the Civil War rang out at Fort Sumter, on a pentagon-shaped island in the harbor. A Confederate stronghold, the fort was shelled to bits by Union forces from 1863 to 1865. A few original guns and fortifications give a feel for the momentous history. The only way
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Honeymoon Island State Park
Honeymoon Island State Recreation Area began life as a grand prize in a 1940s contest. Paramount newsreels and Life magazine were giving away all-expenses-paid honeymoons to newlyweds who’d stay in thatched huts lining the beach. A road connecting the island to the mainland was bui
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Valdez Museum
This gargantuan museum includes an ornate, steam-powered antique fire engine, a 19th-century saloon bar and the ceremonial first barrel of oil to flow from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. There are arresting photos of the six minutes when Valdez was shaken to pieces by the 1964 Good Fri
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Stretching along prime Lake Superior real estate, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a series of wild cliffs and caves where blue and green minerals have streaked the red and yellow sandstone into a kaleidoscope of color. Rte 58 (Alger County Rd) spans the park for 52 slow miles
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Ship Creek Viewing Platform
From mid- to late summer, king, coho and pink salmon spawn up Ship Creek, the historical site of Tanaina Indian fish camps. At the overlook you can cheer on those love-starved fish humping their way toward destiny, and during high tide see the banks lined with anglers trying to hoo
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St Augustines Church
Open since 1841, ‘St Aug’s’ is the second-oldest African American Catholic church in the country, a place where Creoles, émigrés from St Domingue and free persons of color could worship shoulder to shoulder, even as separate pews were designated for slaves. The future of the church
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Kennicott Glacier
‘Oh no, they destroyed this valley!’ If you’re like 99% of visitors, that’s exactly what you’ll think as you reach Kennecott and look across the valley at a rolling landscape of dirt and rubble. But no, that isn’t a dump of mine tailings from the copper-boom days, but the Kennicott
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John Harvard Statue
The focal point of Harvard Yard is the John Harvard statue, where every Harvard hopeful has a photo taken. Daniel Chester French’s sculpture, inscribed John Harvard, Founder of Harvard College, 1638, is known as the statue of three lies: it does not actually depict Harvard (since n
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Griffith Park
A gift to the city in 1896 by mining mogul Griffith J Griffith, and five times the size of New York’s Central Park, Griffith Park is one of the country’s largest urban green spaces. It contains a major outdoor theater, the city zoo, an observatory, two museums, golf courses, playgr
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Hole n the Rock
An unabashed tourist trap 12 miles south of Moab, Hole ’n the Rock is a 5000-sq-ft home-cum-cave carved into sandstone and decorated in knockout 1950s kitsch. What weren’t owners Albert and Gladys Christensen into? He was a barber, a painter, an amateur engineer and a taxidermist.
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Illinois Centennial Memorial Column
What’s that giant phallic thing in the middle of the road, causing traffic to swerve every which way? Excellent question. Most locals have no idea. Turns out it’s a monument commemorating the 100th anniversary of Illinois’ statehood, built in 1918 by a gent named Henry Bacon – the
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Central Burying Ground
Dating to 1756, the Central Burying Ground is the least celebrated of the old cemeteries, as it was the burial ground of the down-and-out (according to one account, used for ‘Roman Catholics and strangers dying in the town’). Some reports indicate that it contains an unmarked mass
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Washington Park Arboretum
This wild and lovely park offers a wide variety of gardens, a wetlands nature trail and 200 acres of mature forest threaded by paths. More than 5500 plant species grow within the arboretum’s boundaries. In the spring Azalea Way , a jogger-free trail that winds through the arboretum
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Stonehenge
Not one for small gestures, Sam Hill built a full-scale replica of Salisbury Plains Stonehenge on the cliffs above the Columbia River, about a mile east of The Dalles bridge in Washington. Dedicated as a peace memorial to Klickitat Countys soldiers killed in WWI, his Stonehenge was
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