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Windmills
Surfers aiming for Ocean Beach tilt toward these twin landmarks on Golden Gate Parks extreme western edge. The 1902 Dutch windmill at the northwestern end of the park is closed due to ongoing interior restoration, but photographers swarm its magnificent Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garde
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World Expo
The main attraction here is Men in Black Alien Attack (Express Pass), a 3-D interactive video game that is a lot of fun but not at all scary. Your car swings and spins through a danger-laden downtown Manhattan, with all kinds of silly looking aliens all over the place, and you aim
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Worcester Art Museum
During Worcesters golden age, its captains of industry bestowed largesse upon the town. The Worcester Art Museum, off Main St (follow the signs), remains a generous and impressive bequest.The museums comprehensive collection ranges from ancient Egyptian artifacts to European master
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Smithsonian Castle
James Renwick designed this turreted, red-sandstone fairytale in 1855. Today the castle houses the Smithsonian Visitors Center , which makes a good first stop on the Mall. Inside you’ll find an history exhibits, multilingual touch-screen displays, a staffed information desk, free m
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Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Mary Cabot established this museum in 1937 to showcase Navajo ceremonial art, and its major strength continues to be exquisite Navajo textiles, displayed under dim lighting to protect the natural dyes. Recent expansion work has added extra space for contemporary Native American art
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Log House Museum
A historical curiosity in Seattles oldest neighborhood, this museum was built in 1903 from Douglas fir trees as a carriage house for a much larger property that once stood on the site. When all around it was moved or demolished to lay out West Seattle, the house miraculously surviv
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Mt Carmel Cemetery
Al Capone is now buried in this cemetery in Hillside, west of Chicago. He and his relatives were moved here in 1950. Al’s simple gray gravestone, which has been stolen and replaced twice, is concealed by a hedge. It reads ‘Alphonse Capone, 1899–1947, My Jesus Mercy.’ Capone’s neigh
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Tobias Lear & Moffatt
Originally owned by an influential ship captain, the Georgian Moffatt-Ladd House was later the home of General William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The 18th-century chestnut tree and the old-fashioned gardens behind the house are delightful. Prices include
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Olson House
This rawboned Maine farmhouse was made iconic when Andrew Wyeth painted it as the backdrop of his most famous painting, Christinas World. Wyeth viewed Christina Olson, the paralyzed daughter of the homes owner, as a symbol of Yankee forbearance. The house, part of the Farnsworth Ar
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North Star Mining Museum
A museum for those who ache when they see machinery set aside to rust. The engineering-minded docents here have polished and oiled their extensive collection of 19th-century mining equipment to a shine. See stamp mills, dredges, dynamite packing machines, Cornish pumps and the larg
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Featuring massive Ancestral Puebloan buildings set in an isolated high-desert environment, intriguing Chaco contains evidence of 5000 years of human occupation. In its prime, the community at Chaco Canyon was a major trading and ceremonial hub for the region - and the city the Pueb
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Caribbean Club Bar
Here’s one for the movie fans, particularly Bogie buffs: the Caribbean Club Bar is, in fact, the only place in Key Largo where Key Largo, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, was filmed (the rest of the island was a Hollywood soundstage). If that’s not enough, the original A
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Cape Arago State Park
A mile beyond Shore Acres is Simpson Reef Viewpoint , where you can spot shorebirds, migrating whales and several species of pinnipeds. Head another 0.5 miles to Cape Arago State Park and the terminus of Cape Arago Hwy, where grassy picnic grounds make for great perches over a poun
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Cajun Village
Before you head back to the city, stop at the rustic antique, craft and coffee shops of Cajun Village . The buildings are all old Creole shacks that have been moved here from around the region. Down the road you might notice the 1963 Sunshine Bridge , unexceptional except for the f
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Bethesda
After visiting Tiffanys windows on Worth Ave, head to Bethesda-by-the Sea to admire its glorious Tiffany window and grand Gothic architecture. Built in 1926 to replace the first Protestant church of Palm Beach, it has a long community history and has hosted many a celebrity wedding
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Sunset Bay State Park
Three miles southwest of town on Cape Arago Hwy, this state park is nestled in a small, protected bay that once served as a safe harbor for fishing boats, and possibly pirates as well. Today its popular with swimmers, hikers and tide-pool explorers. A 6-mile, cliff-edge stretch of
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Sports Immortals Showcase Museum
Founded by sports-memorabilia collector Joel Platt, this museum is a preview of his more ambitious project, the Sports Immortals Experience, ‘in the works’ for years. Today, you can view rotating exhibits featuring mementos from balls and helmets to plaques and artwork. The top flo
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USDA Forest Service Austin Ranger District Office
The USDA Forest Service Austin Ranger District office has info on camping, hiking trails and scenic drives, including the trip to Toquima Cave , where you can see rock art by ancient Shoshones. Take US Hwy 50 east of Austin about 12 miles to the NV Hwy 376 junction and turn south,
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Vedanta Society
Meandering the Marina, youll pass Mexican-inspired art deco, Victorian mansions, generic bay-windowed boxes – and, hello, whats this? A riotous 1905 mishmash of architectural styles, with red turrets representing major world religions and the Hindu-inspired Vedanta Societys organiz
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Ruth Asawa Fountains
During drought years youll have to imagine how they look with water flowing, but even without, theyre a sight to behold. Celebrated sculptor and former WWII internee Ruth Asawa designed these fountains to be lived in, not observed from polite distance. Bronze origami dandelions spr
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