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Gallup Cultural Center
This cultural center houses a good little museum of Indian art, including excellent collections of kachina dolls both new and old, plus pottery, sand painting and weaving. A 10ft-tall bronze sculpture of a Navajo code-talker honors the sacrifices made by Navajo men in WWII. A tiny
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Cathedral of the Holy Cross
When this neo-Gothic cathedral was built in 1875, it was America’s largest Catholic cathedral, as big as Londons Westminster Abbey. It serves as the main cathedral for the archdiocese of Boston and the seat of the archbishop. The exquisite rose window features King David playing hi
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Casa Antigua
This was technically Hemingway’s first house in Key West and where he wrote A Farewell to Arms, but it isn’t all that notable, except for a lush garden in the back and a very kitschy ‘guided tour. For $2, theyll let you into a peaceful green area out the back, where a recorded tape
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Duval Street
Key West locals have a love-hate relationship with the most famous road in Key West (if not the Keys). Duval, Old Town Key West’s main drag, is a miracle mile of booze, tacky everything and awful behavior. But it’s fun. The ‘Duval Crawl’ is one of the wildest pub crawls in the coun
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Florida Keys Eco
So, you’ve been making your way down the Keys, thinking, Gosh, could there be a place that ties all the knowledge of this unique ecological phenomenon into one fun, well-put-together educational exhibit? OK, maybe those weren’t your exact thoughts, but this is exactly what you get
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BR Cohn
Picnic like a rock star at always-busy BR Cohn, whose founder managed 70s-superband the Doobie Brothers before moving on to make outstanding organic olive oils and fine wines – including excellent cabernet sauvignon, atypical in Sonoma. The little gourmet shop offers lots to taste,
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Sharpsteen Museum
Across from the picturesque 1902 City Hall (originally an opera house), the Sharpsteen Museum was created by an ex-Disney animator (whose Oscar is on display) and houses a fantastic diorama of town in the 1860s, big Victorian dollhouse, full-size horse-drawn carriage, cool taxiderm
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Puerto de Luna
The tiny village of Puerto de Luna, beside the Pecos River 10 miles south of Santa Rosa, was founded in the 1860s. The drive there is pretty, winding through arroyos surrounded by eroded sandstone mesas on Hwy 91. Once you arrive youll find an old county courthouse, a village churc
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McKee Botanical Gardens
In Veros early-1920s tourist heyday Waldo Sexton (of the eponymous Waldos) and Arthur McKee joined forces to open the 80-acre McKee Jungle Gardens, which delighted visitors for decades until Disney stole the show in the 1970s. Much of the land was sold off for development, but pass
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Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon
Kids love the creepy dungeon, used as a prison for pirates and for American patriots held by the British during the Revolutionary War. The cramped space sits beneath a stately Georgian Palladian customs house completed in 1771. Costumed guides lead the dungeon tours. Exhibits about
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Musicians Village
An 8-acre tract of some 81 houses, built primarily for musicians, a vital component of the citys cultural and economic landscape. If you visit, please bear in mind this is a living neighborhood; folks can get understandably tetchy if you take pictures of them or their property with
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Clausen Memorial Museum
This museum holds an interesting collection of artifacts and relics, mostly related to local fishing history. Exhibits include the largest king salmon ever caught (126lbs), a giant lens from the old Cape Decision lighthouse, a Tlingit dugout canoe and the 30-minute film, Petersburg
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Chess Hall of Fame
You’d think chess fanatics would have orderly minds and be good at scheduling, but this museum was closed both times we visited, despite coming during regular hours. So we can only tell you that the Chess HoF is located in a big, white rooklike structure with a sword-in-the-stone o
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Frontier Culture Museum
The excellent Frontier Culture Museum has authentic historic buildings from Germany, Ireland and England, plus re-created West African dwellings and a separate area of American frontier dwellings on the sites 100-plus acres. Costumed interpreters (aided by bleating livestock) do an
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Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center
This sanctuary is the first of many animal hospitals you’ll come across built by critter-loving Samaritans throughout the Keys. You’ll find an alfresco bird hospital that cares for birds that have swallowed fish hooks, had wings clipped in accidents, been shot by BB pellets etc. A
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FDR Memorial Stone
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t want a grand memorial like the one thats now on the Mall. He reportedly said, ‘If any memorial is erected to me, I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this desk and placed in front of the Archives Building. I want it pla
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Jaggar Museum
The big draws at this small one-room museum are the views and the real-time seismographs and tiltmeters recording earthquakes inside the park. Other exhibits introduce Hawaiian gods and goddesses and give a short history of the neighboring Hawaiʻi Volcano Observatory, founded by fa
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James Flood Building
This 1904 stone building survived the 1906 earthquake and retains its original character, notwithstanding the Gap downstairs. Upstairs, labyrinthine marble hallways are lined with frosted-glass doors, just like a noir movie set. No coincidence: in 1921 the SF office of infamous Pin
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West Coast Choppers
The iron-gated compound straddling both sides of ‘West Coast Choppers Place’ belongs to marital outlaw Jesse James. This is where sleek, impossibly angular choppers are custom-made by burly, goatee-sporting LBC locals. The showroom is small but worth a peek, and the gift shop sells
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ʻUalapuʻe Fishpond
A half-mile beyond Wavecrest Resort condo development, at mile marker 13, youll spot ʻUalapuʻe Fishpond on the makai (makai) side of the road. This fishpond, which is a National Historic Landmark, has been restored and restocked with mullet and milkfish, two species that were raise
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