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Crescent Park
This waterfront park is our favorite spot in the city for taking in the Mississippi. Enter over the enormous arch at Piety and Chartres Sts and watch the fog blanket the nearby skyline. A promenade meanders past an angular metal and concrete conceptual wharf (placed next to the bur
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C&O Canal National Historic Park
A marvel of engineering, the C&O Canal was designed to stretch alongside the Potomac River from Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River. Construction on the canal began in 1828 but was halted here in 1850 by the Appalachian Mountains. The parks protected 185-mile corridor includes a 1
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Bond Historic District
Contains three historic properties all built by missionary Elias Bond (1813–62), a seminal figure in numerous aspects of Kohala life, from education to roads to the sugar industry. The Bond Homestead (1889) was the original base for Elias work. The Kohala Girls School is in excelle
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Aloha Tower
Built in 1926, this 10-story landmark was once the city’s tallest building. In the golden days when all tourists to Hawaii arrived by ship, this pre-WWII waterfront icon – with its four-sided clock tower inscribed with ‘Aloha’ – greeted every visitor. These days, Hawaii Pacific Uni
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Southern Exposure
Art really ties the room together at nonprofit arts center Southern Exposure, where works are carefully crafted not just with paint and canvas but a sense of community. Recent projects include Bernie Lubells wooden flying machine invented onsite with community input, and 24 artists
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Lake Yellowstone Hotel
The buttercup-yellow Lake Yellowstone Hotel, dating from 1891, is the park’s oldest building and certainly its most elegant. Robert Reamer (who also designed the Old Faithful Inn) rebuilt the hotel in 1903, adding Ionic columns and false balconies. Swank and expansive, this souther
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Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park
The juxtaposition of the ancient and modern makes this former Hohokam village memorable. Excavations at the site, which is tucked between Phoenix and Tempe, have yielded many clues about the daily lives of an ancient people famous for building such a well-engineered 1000-mile netwo
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Lynn Hall Memorial Park
Here’s the setup: shade-giving palm trees and the blue-green waters of the Gulf (bathwater warm in late spring and summer). And in between? The smoothest sand in the region – white, powdery and a joy for your toes. Activities abound: there’s a licensed fishing pier, picnic shelters
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San Antonio Art League Museum
This tiny museum houses art from regional 20th- century American artists. In the 1920s, the San Antonio Art League was famous for annual exhibitions of paintings of Texas wildflowers. The museums early patron was Marion McNay, who also founded the excellent McNay Art Museum. Here,
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Tibet House
With the Dalai Lama as the patron of its board, this nonprofit cultural space is dedicated to presenting Tibet’s ancient traditions through art exhibits, a research library and various publications. Programs on offer include educational workshops, open meditations, retreat weekends
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George Washington’s Distillery & Gristmill
Three miles south of his estate Mount Vernon, on Rte 235, you’ll find George Washington’s Distillery & Gristmill , which was also part of the president’s estate. Although Washington’s leadership skills were well known, his prowess at farming and making whiskey were less discuss
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Dinosaur Quarry
The Jurassic strata containing the fossils give a glimpse of how paleontologists transform solid rock into the beautiful skeletons seen in museums, and how they develop scientifically reliable interpretations of life in the remote past. Ranger-led walks, talks and tours explain the
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Creation Museum
Fact: nearly half of Americans dont believe in evolution. Hence the popularity of Petersburg, Kentuckys new multimillion-dollar Creation Museum , an interactive tour through a biblical interpretation of history. The scientific-minded will fume at what may be seen as an anti-rationa
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Crown Point Press
Bet you didnt think anyone could capture Chuck Closes giant portraits, Robert Bechtles hyperrealistic street scenes or Chris Ofilis glitter-and-elephant-dung paintings on paper – yet here they are. Crown Point Press printmakers work with international artists to turn singular visio
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Honolulu Zoo
Honolulu Zoo does a great job on limited finances of showcasing tropical animals from around the globe. There are 40-plus acres of tropical greenery, happy-looking animals and a petting zoo for kids. Hawaii has no endemic land mammals, but in the aviary near the entrance you can se
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Hood Museum of Art
Shortly after the universitys founding in 1769, Dartmouth began to acquire artifacts of artistic or historical interest. Since then the collection has expanded to include nearly 70,000 items, which are housed at the Hood Museum of Art. The collection is particularly strong in Ameri
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Frank Lloyd Wright Building
Shrink the Guggenheim, plop it inside a yellow-brick box with a round Romanesque entryway and put it where youd least expect it: on a shady San Francisco alley that was once a backstreet brothel. Groundbreaking American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed this as the VC Morris Gi
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Foster Island Wetlands Trail
The northern edge of Washington Park Arboretum includes this wonderful woodchip-paved trail around Foster Island in Lake Washington’s Union Bay, a picnic spot that once was a burial ground for Union Bay Native Americans. The waterfront trail winds through marshlands and over a seri
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Chings Pond
Back up on the Hana Hwy, the stream that feeds Keʻanae Peninsula pauses to create a couple of swimming holes just below the bridge, 0.9 miles after the 16-mile marker. You won’t see anything driving by, but there’s a good-sized pull-off immediately before the bridge where you can p
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Beauport
The lavish home of interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper is known as Beauport, or the Sleeper-McCann mansion. Sleeper scoured New England for houses that were about to be demolished and scavenged wood paneling, architectural elements and furniture. In place of unity, he created a w
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