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Del Mar Racetrack & Fairgrounds
Del Mar’s biggest draw was founded in 1937 by a prestigious group including Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante. It’s worth trying to brave the crowds on opening day, if nothing else to see the amazing spectacle of ladies wearing over-the-top hats. Driving here on opening day…just don’t.
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Ave Maria Grotto
Located 50 miles north of Birmingham on the grounds of the only Benedictine monastery in Alabama, the amazing Ave Maria Grotto is more or less the work of one man, Brother Joseph Zoettl, who spent the better part of 35 years hand-sculpting stone and cement miniatures of the worlds
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AMOA
The lovechild of the Austin Museum of Art and the Arthouse has a cool new downtown space and a freshly hyphenated name. AMOA-Arthouse focuses on rotating exhibits representing fresh new voices – both in its main gallery, the Jones Center, as well as the museums original home at Lag
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Rainbow Honor Walk
Castro Street got a major makeover in 2014, when the city doubled the width of the sidewalks, painted rainbow crosswalks at 18th St, and laid into the concrete 20, three-foot-square plaques honoring GLBT heroes – diverse as Oscar Wilde and Sylvester, Gertrude Stein and Keith Haring
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Royal Hawaiian Hotel
With its Moorish-style turrets and archways, this gorgeously restored 1927 art-deco landmark, dubbed the ‘Pink Palace,’ is a throwback to the era when Rudolph Valentino was the romantic idol and travel to Hawaii was by Matson Navigation luxury liner. Its guest list read like a who’
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Preservation Resource Center
If youre interested in the architecture of New Orleans or a self-guided walking tour, then start here. The welcoming Preservation Resource Center, located inside the 1853 Leeds-Davis building, offers free pamphlets with walking-tour maps for virtually every part of town. Helpful st
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Metairie Cemetery
Established in 1872 on a former race track (the grounds, you’ll notice, still follow the oval layout), this is the most American of New Orleans’ cities of the dead. Highlights include the Brunswig mausoleum, a pyramid guarded by a sphinx statue; the Moriarty monument, reputedly the
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Mauna Loa Lookout
Its a narrow, winding and potholed drive to the very top of lonely Mauna Loa Rd, passing heavily forested kipuka as you come ever closer to the worlds most massive active volcano. Mauna Loa has erupted more than 18 times in the past century – the last eruption, in March 1984, laste
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Pioneer Building
Built in 1891, this magnificent structure facing Pioneer Square Park is one of the finest Victorian buildings in Seattle and showcases many of the classic components of Richardsonian Romanesque; look for the Roman arches, a recessed main doorway, curvaceous bay windows and various
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Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
Miami loves modern, but the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts is vintage-classic beautiful. The ceiling, which features 246 twinkling stars and clouds cast over an indigo-deep night, frosted with classical Greek sculpture and Vienna Opera House–style embe
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Chinatown
DC’s dinky Chinatown is anchored on 7th and H Sts NW. It was once a major Asian entrepôt, but today most Asians in the Washington area live in the Maryland/Virginia suburbs. That said, Chinatown is still an intriguing browse. Enter through Friendship Arch , the largest single-span
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Grand Canyon Deer Farm
Blanketed in wood chips, a trail leads through an open area where the deer roam free and gather eagerly around visitors with outstretched hands full of tasty pellets. A smaller pen is home to goats (quite the loud-mouthed personalities here, mischieviously reaching to munch on food
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Woodland Park Zoo
In Woodland Park, up the hill from Green Lake Park, the Woodland Park Zoo is one of Seattle’s greatest tourist attractions, consistently rated as one of the top 10 zoos in the country. It was one of the first in the nation to free animals from their restrictive cages in favor of ec
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Yosemite Falls
Yosemites waterfalls are mesmerizing, especially when the spring runoff turns them into thunderous cataracts (most are reduced to a trickle by late summer). Yosemite Falls is considered the tallest waterfall in North America, dropping 740m (2425ft) in three tiers. A slick new trail
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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
If you visit just one botanical garden in Florida, choose Selby, which has the worlds largest scientific collection of orchids and bromeliads – more than 20,000 species. Emblematic of Florida, these plants are the sideshow freaks of the plant kingdom, propagating in such bizarre fa
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National Japanese American Memorial
Tucked back from the road and providing a peaceful sanctuary, the memorial centers on a statue of two cranes bound with barbed wire. During WWII, thousands of West Coast Japanese American citizens were held in internment camps as suspected ‘enemy aliens.’ Even as this discriminatio
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Museum of Arts & Design
MAD offers four floors of superlative design and handicrafts, from blown glass and carved wood to elaborate metal jewelry. Its temporary exhibitions are top notch and innovative; one past show explored the art of scent. Usually on the first Sunday of the month, professional artists
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Haipuaʻena Falls
For a secluded dip, Haipuaʻena Falls, 0.5 miles past the 11-mile marker, provides a deep and serene pool. Since you can’t see the pool from the road, few people know it’s there. So it’s not a bad choice if you forgot your bathing suit. There’s space for just a couple of cars on the
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Cocoa Village
Originally a trading post along the Indian River, Cocoa Village started serving tourists in the late 19th century when steamboat travelers disembarked along Riverfront Park to stretch their legs. Now the historic downtown offers a pleasant alternative to Cocoa Beach. Its main drag,
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Cambridge Common
Opposite the main entrance to Harvard Yard, Cambridge Common is the village green where General Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. The traffic island at the south end, known as Dawes Island, pays tribute to the other rider, William Dawes, who rode thro
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