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Bridgeport Art Center
The old Spiegel Catalog Warehouse holds more than 50 artists studios. The best time to come is on the third Friday of the month when the studios open to the public for a big ta-do between 6pm and 10pm. Otherwise youll need to make an appointment to visit. The exception is Coyle &a
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Boone Hall Plantation
Just 11 miles from downtown Charleston on Hwy 17N, Boone Hall Plantation is famous for its magical Avenue of Oaks, planted by Thomas Boone in 1743. Boone Hall is still a working plantation, though strawberries, tomatoes and Christmas trees long ago replaced cotton as the primary cr
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Bahama Village
Bahama Village was the old Bahamian district of the island, and in days past had a colorful Caribbean feel about it, which is resurrected a bit during the Goombay Festival . But today the village is pretty gentrified; many areas have been swallowed into a sort of pseudo-Duval perip
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18th Street NW & Columbia Road
Close to 40 restaurants and nightspots line 18th St between Florida Ave and Columbia Rd, a stretch of blocks that also packs stores selling African, Asian and Latin American bric-a-brac. During the day the area can feel a little listless, but as soon as the sun sets the strip comes
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Green City Market
Stands of purple cabbages, red radishes, green asparagus and other bright-hued produce sprawl through Lincoln Park at Chicagos biggest farmers market. Follow your nose to the demonstration tent, where local cooks such as Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard prepare dishes – say rice cre
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Grand Central Arcade
This lovely meeting point was originally Squire’s Opera House, erected in 1879 by Watson Squire, who became one of Washington’s first senators after it achieved statehood. When the Opera House burned down, it was rebuilt as the Squire-Latimer Building and later became the Grand Cen
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Glass Beach
Named for (what’s left of) the sea-polished glass in the sand, remnants of its days as a city dump, this beach is now part of MacKerricher State Park where visitors comb the sand for multicolored glass. Take the headlands trail from Elm St, off Main St, but leave the glass; as a pa
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Giant Forest Museum
For a primer on the intriguing ecology and history of giant sequoias, this pint-sized modern museum will entertain both kids and adults. Hands-on exhibits teach about the life stages of these big trees, which can live for over 3000 years, and the fire cycle that releases their seed
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Charnley
While he was still working for Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright (who was 19 at the time) designed the large but only 11-room Charnley-Persky House , and proclaimed with his soon-to-be-trademarked bombast that it was the ‘first modern building.’ Why? Simply because it did away wit
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Fantasy Park
This enchanting fantasy park of rides, shows and attractions is mostly suited to the elementary-school set. Tots can dig for dinosaur bones, pilot helicopters and earn their drivers license. Mom and dad will probably get a kick out of Miniland, recreating such American landmarks as
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De Leon Springs State Park
Fifteen minutes north of town, these natural springs flow into the 18,000-acre Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge and were used by Native Americans 6000 years ago. Today theyre a popular developed swimming area, great for kids. Water-equipment rentals and boat tours are availab
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Coors Brewery
Coors Brewery is now officially called MillerCoors, but try telling the locals that. There’s been brewing on this site since 1873. Coors survived the prohibition years by producing malted milk and porcelain products, and went on to produce the world’s first beer shipped in aluminum
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Kings Beach State Recreation Area
The utilitarian character of Kings Beach belies the fact that it has some of the areas best restaurants. The town is one of the more ethnically diverse lakeshore communities with a large Latino population, many of whom work in the tourism industry around Lake Tahoe. In summer much
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Nambé Falls
Two lovely 20-minute hikes, starting from the Ramada Area 5 miles off Hwy 503 lead to the biggest attraction on Nambé lands, Nambé Falls. The steep upper hike has a photogenic overlook of the falls, while the easier, lower hike along the river takes in ancient petroglyphs. The near
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Lee Circle
Called Place du Tivoli until it was renamed to honor Confederate General Robert E Lee after the Civil War, Lee Circle is a tragic example of an urban junction planned badly. The presence of a nearby elevated freeway mars what should be a pleasant roundabout. Oh well; the Robert E L
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Shadows on the Teche
Any walk around town should include a tour of Shadows on the Teche , a grand, Greek-revival plantation house set on the banks of the bayou. The home stayed in the Weeks family from construction in 1831 until it was willed to the National Society for Historic Preservation in 1958. M
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Singing Water Gallery
The Santa Clara Pueblo entrance is 1.3 miles southwest of Española on Hwy 30. Several galleries and private homes sell intricately carved black pottery. Stop first at Singing Water Gallery , right outside the main pueblo. In addition to representing 213 of some 450 Santa Clara pott
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State Department
The headquarters of the American diplomatic corps is a forbidding, well-guarded edifice, all modernist, blocky and unfriendly. In stark contrast are the elegant grand diplomatic reception rooms, where Cabinet members and the Secretary of State entertain visiting potentates amid orn
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Spruce Street Footbridge
As you head northward toward Hillcrest consider a detour across the 375ft Spruce Street Footbridge . Note that the 1912 suspension bridge, built over a deep canyon between Front St and Brant St, wriggles beneath your feet. But don’t worry; it was designed that way. The nearby Quinc
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Prospect Heights
When United Artists were making John Wayne Westerns in Cañon City, this is where they lived and worked. A turn-of-the-20th-century Colorado Fuel & Iron company town before Hollywood came and went, Cañon City was legally dry, so the drinkers, like Wayne and cowboy actor Tom Mix,
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