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Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery
The Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery housed at Keene State College plays a crucial role in supporting the arts in this rural region. Its spacious skylit halls showcase rotating exhibits of regional and national artists. Sagendorph hosts an annual exhibit focusing on New Hampshire nati
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Smith
Just over three-quarters of a mile after mile marker 11, a small sign on the makai (seaward) side of the road notes the Smith-Bronte Landing, the site where pilot Ernest Smith and navigator Emory Bronte safely crash-landed their plane at the completion of the worlds first civilian
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Kakahaiʻa National Wildlife Refuge
The Kakahaiʻa National Wildlife Refuge is a 44-acre refuge along the road from Kawela to Pukoʻo. It includes freshwater marshland, with a dense growth of bulrushes and an inland freshwater fishpond that has been expanded to provide a home for endangered birds, including the Hawaiia
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Dumbo
Dumbos nickname is an acronym for its location: Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, and while this north Brooklyn slice of waterfront used to be strictly for industry, its now the domain of high-end condos, furniture shops and art galleries. Several highly regarded performing
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Devils Postpile National Monument
The most fascinating attraction in Reds Meadow is the surreal volcanic formation of Devils Postpile National Monument. The 60ft curtains of near-vertical, six-sided basalt columns formed when rivers of molten lava slowed, cooled and cracked with perplexing symmetry. This honeycomb
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Fred Harman Art Museum & the Red Ryder Roundup
The Red Ryder’s image might be lost on today’s whippersnappers, but Fred Harman’s comic book hero was born in Pagosa Springs, and today Harman’s home is a small museum. It’s a kitschy and off-beat roadside attraction, but Harman himself is often on hand to show you around his studi
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Cincinnati Museum Center
Two miles northwest of downtown, this museum complex occupies the 1933 Union Terminal, an art-deco jewel still used by Amtrak. The interior has fantastic murals made of local Rookwood tiles. The Museum of Natural History is mostly geared to kids, but it does have a limestone cave w
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Bryce Canyon National Park
The Grand Staircase – a series of steplike uplifted rock layers stretching north from the Grand Canyon – dramatically culminates in the Pink Cliffs formation at Bryce Canyon National Park . These cliffs were deposited as sediment in a huge prehistoric lake some 50 to 60 million yea
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Arts District
The Helms complex marks the beginning of Culver City’s vital arts district, which runs east along Washington to La Cienega and up one block to Venice Blvd. In 2003 art-world movers and shakers Blum & Poe relocated their gallery here from Santa Monica, drawn by cheap rents and a
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William B Ide Adobe State Historic Park
Set on a beautiful, shaded piece of land overlooking a languorous section of the Sacramento River, this park preserves the original one-room adobe house, old forge, and grounds of pioneer William B Ide, who ‘fought’ in the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt at Sonoma and became president of the
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Whitney Plantation
The Whitney is the first plantation in the state to focus on the history and realities of slavery. Visitors are given an historical tour into the world of the German-American Haydel family and their slaves, but the visit emphasizes the lived experience of the latter group. Besides
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Wright Museum
For a Rosie-the-riveter and baked-apple-pie look at WWII, visit this museums interactive exhibitions that feature music, documentary clips, posters and other American paraphernalia. There are also uniforms, equipment and military hardware (including a 42-ton Pershing tank), meticul
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Spouting Horn Park
A concrete walkway and a grassy picnic area sit just above two blowholes in the lava-rock reef where the surf juts through like a mini geyser. The waves can be unpredictable, so you might need to wait for some action. Eruptions are typically less than 30ft and last only seconds, bu
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US Air Force Academy
One of the highest-profile military academies in the country, a visit to this campus offers a limited but nonetheless fascinating look into the lives of an elite group of cadets. The visitor center provides general background on the academy; from here you can walk over to the drama
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Check it: the school mascot is a banana slug! Established in 1965 in the hills above town, UCSC is known for its creative, liberal bent. The rural campus has fine stands of redwoods and architecturally interesting buildings – some made with recycled materials – designed to blend in
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Valley of Fires Recreation Area
At the Valley of Fires Recreation Area, 4 miles west of Carrizozo, you can explore the rocky blackness of a 125-sq-mile lava flow thats 160ft deep in the middle. The paved 0.6-mile nature trail is easy for kids and holds informative signs describing the geology and biology of this
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Tuzigoot National Monument
Atop a ridge about two miles north of Clarkdale, Tuzigoot National Monument , a Sinaguan pueblo like nearby Montezuma, is believed to have been inhabited from AD 1000 to 1400. At its peak as many as 225 people lived in its 110 rooms. Stop by the visitor center to examine tools, pot
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Kilauea Iki Overlook
When Kilauea Iki (Little Kilauea) burst open in a fiery inferno in November 1959, it turned the crater into a roiling lake of molten lava and sent 1900ft-high fountains of lava into the night sky. At its peak, the eruption gushed 2 million tons of lava an hour and the landscape glo
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Pueblo Railway Museum
A somewhat decentralized museum with exhibits set up in a corner of the Southeastern Colorado Heritage Center, an old freight warehouse opposite Union Station. They also own vintage railcars and engines on the tracks behind the old Union Depot. The most prized piece is a Sante Fe 2
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Pier 60
In high season, Clearwaters long stretch of smooth, white sand becomes a scrum of sun-baked coeds and extended families. Hotels, resorts and raucous beach bars line the sand, particularly near Pier 60, where sunset is celebrated each night with a festive menagerie of musicians, mag
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