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St Raphaels Catholic Church
Kauaʻi’s oldest Catholic church is the burial site of some of Hawaii’s first Portuguese immigrants. The original 1854 church was made of lava rock and coral mortar with walls 3ft thick – a type of construction visible in the ruins of the adjacent rectory. When the church was enlarg
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Soldiers & Sailors Monument
Dedicated in 1877, this massive monument atop Flagstaff Hill pays tribute to the namesake soldiers and sailors that died in the Civil War. The four bronze statues represent Peace, the female figure looking to the South; the Sailor, the seaman looking toward the ocean; History, the
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Zhou B Art Center
Like Bridgeport Art Center, which sits one block west, Zhou B fills a massive old warehouse with galleries and studios. It also participates in the popular Third Friday Open Studios event starting at 7pm. A trendy, Asian-style lounge with drinks and occasional live music operates
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Three Rivers Petroglyph NRA
The uncrowded Three Rivers Petroglyph NRA showcases 21,000 petroglyphs, incised six centuries ago by the Jornada Mogollon people onto the flat surfaces of boulders atop a low ridge at the eastern edge of the Tularosa. The images include birds, animals, masks and human figures, and
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Sulphur Banks
Wooden boardwalks weave through to steaming Sulphur Banks, where rocky vents and holes are stained chartreuse, yellow, orange and other weird colors by tons of sulfur-infused steam rising from deep within the earth. That rotten-egg stench is from noxious hydrogen sulfide wafting ou
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St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church
Built in 1893 against the backdrop of Mt Juneau, the onion-domed church is the oldest original one in Alaska. From a small gift shop filled with matreshkas(nestling dolls)and other handcrafted items from Russia, you enter the church where, among the original vestments and religious
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Shiprock
By far the coolest sight around these parts, Shiprock looms eerily over the landscape 40 miles west of Farmington. A 1700ft-high volcanic plug and a lofty landmark for Anglo pioneers, it’s also a sacred site to the Navajo. While its visible from Hwy 64, you’ll get better views from
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Rosa Parks Museum
This museum, set in front of the bus stop where she took her stand, features a video re-creation of that pivotal moment that launched the 1955 boycott. The experience is very managed - youre given a small opportunity to explore on your own, but otherwise the museum feels something
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San Miguel Mission
The small church built by Socorros earliest Spanish settlers expanded to become the San Miguel Mission in the 1620s. You’ll find it three blocks north of the Plaza. While much altered, the mission still retains its colonial feel, and parts of the walls date back to the original bui
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Lanikai Beach
Just southeast of Kailua, Lanikai is an exclusive residential neighborhood fronting a gorgeous stretch of powdery white sand overlooking two postcard-perfect islands, known locally as the Mokes. Today the beach is shrinking: nearly half the sand has washed away as a result of retai
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Heurich House
Welcome to ‘the castle that beer built.’ John Granville Myers designed the 31-room mansion for German-born brewer Christian Heurich, a man who loved beer with a passion. One quote along the walls states: ‘Raum ist in der kleinsten Kammer fur den grossten Katzenjammer ’ (‘There is r
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Haas
A grand Queen Anne–style Victorian, its original 1886 splendor intact, this family mansion looks like a Clue game come to life – Colonel Mustard could certainly have committed murder with a rope in the dark-wood ballroom, or Miss Scarlet with a candlestick in the red-velvet parlor.
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California Heritage Museum
For a trip back in time, check out the latest exhibit at this museum housed in one of Santa Monica’s few surviving grand Victorian mansions – this one built in 1894. Curators do a wonderful job presenting pottery, colorful tiles, craftsman furniture, folk art, vintage surfboards an
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Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption
You might assume from afar that this 1971 concrete cathedral is a ship’s prow or witch’s hat. This behemoth started out as a modest proposal by a local architecture firm, but the archbishop read architectural criticism in his spare time and hired MIT guru Pietro Belluschi and Itali
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Fairchild Tropical Garden
If you need to escape Miami’s madness, consider a green day in the country’s largest tropical botanical garden. A butterfly grove, jungle biospheres, and gentle vistas of marsh and keys habitats, plus frequent art installations from folks like Roy Lichtenstein, are all stunning. In
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Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach
The Eden Roc Resort was the second groundbreaking resort from Morris Lapidus, and it’s a fine example of the architecture known as MiMo (Miami Modern). It was the hangout for the 1960s Rat Pack – Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and crew. Extensive renovation has eclipsed
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Delray Center for the Arts
Otherwise known as Old School Square, this highly successful preservation project encompasses Delrays 1913 elementary school, 1925 high school and 1926 gymnasium. Now these buildings house the Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture , showcasing rotating exhibitions of local,
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Deering Estate at Cutler
The Deering estate is sort of ‘Vizcaya lite’, which makes sense as it was built by Charles, brother of James Deering (of Vizcaya fame). The 150-acre grounds are awash with tropical growth, an animal-fossil pit of bones dating back 50,000 years and the remains of Native Americans wh
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John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park
This park tells the story of the race riot that began on Memorial Day, May 30, 1921, when an African American man and a white woman were alone in an elevator in downtown Tulsa and the woman screamed. The how and why have never been answered, but the incident sparked three days of r
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Milwaukee Art Museum
You have to see this lakeside institution, which features a stunning winglike addition by Santiago Calatrava. It soars open and closed every day at 10am, noon and 5pm (8pm on Thursday), which is wild to watch (head to the suspension bridge outside for the best view). There are fabu
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