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Port Orford Heads State Park
A short drive along Coast Guard Rd leads to this state park, which has the best location in town. A couple of 20-minute loop trails offer fine panoramic views and a closer look at coastal flora. Deer and bunnies live on the grassy picnic grounds surrounding the Lifeboat Station Mus
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Hing Hay Park
If you need a tranquil spot to rest while wandering the ID, Hing Hay Park lends a little green to the otherwise austere district. The traditional Chinese pavilion was a gift from the people of Taipei. On Saturdays in August you can catch a free outdoor movie here beginning at sunse
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Ikenobo Ikebana Society
The largest, oldest society outside Japan for ikebana (the Japanese art of flower-arranging) has the window displays to prove it: a curly willow tickling a narcissus in an abstract jiyubana (freestyle) arrangement, or traditional seven-part rikka landscape featuring pine and iris.
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Katama Beach
Although theyre convenient, Edgartowns in-town beaches are just kids stuff. For the real deal head to Katama Beach, also called South Beach, about 4 miles south of Edgartown center. Kept in a natural state, this barrier beach stretches for three magnificent miles. Rugged surf will
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Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse
Built in 1860, this historic lighthouse hasnt missed a night of work in more than 100 years and is among the oldest lighthouses on the Atlantic coast. Visitors can climb the 108 steps to view the surrounding area and ocean. Tours to the lighthouse depart every half-hour. Theres som
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Zaca Mesa Winery
Stop by this barn-style tasting room for a rustic, sipping-on-the-farm ambience. Santa Barbara’s highest-elevation winery, Zaca Mesa is known not only for its estate-grown Rhône varietals and signature Z Cuvée red blend and Z Blanc white blend, but also a life-sized outdoor chessbo
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Yards Park
The riverside green space is just down the road from the Nationals stadium. There are shaded tables by the water, a wooden boardwalk, fountains and a funky modernist bridge that looks like a giant, open-faced plastic straw. Look left and youll see ships docked at the Navy Yard. Sev
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Lookout Studio
Like Mary Colters other canyon buildings, Lookout Studio was modeled after stone dwellings of the Southwest Pueblo Native Americans. Made of rough-cut Kaibab limestone, with a roof that mirrors the lines of the rim, the studio blends into its natural surroundings. Inside is a small
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Hollywood Heritage Museum
Hollywood’s first feature-length film, Cecil B DeMille’s The Squaw Man, was shot in this building in 1913–14, originally set at the corner of Selma and Vine Sts. DeMille went on to cofound Paramount and had the barn moved to the lot in the ‘20s. Now the Hollywood Heritage Museum, i
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Irish Hunger Memorial
Artist Brian Tolles compact labyrinth of low limestone walls and patches of grass pays tribute to the Great Irish Famine and Migration (1845–52), which prompted hundreds of thousands of immigrants to leave Ireland for better opportunities in the New World. Representing abandoned co
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Old Salem
An hour-and-a-half west of Durham in the city of Winston-Salem is Old Salem , a village settled in the late 1700s by Moravians, a Protestant sect originally from Central Europe. Today costumed interpreters make shoes, spin cotton and bake in the restored original buildings. The sug
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Museum of Craft & Design
Corporate fighter jets, woven metal jellyfish, porcelain maps: dazzling, experimental designs not meant for mass production reignite wonder at the Museum of Craft & Design. Check the online schedule for Etsy Craft Lab nights and hands-on workshops where accomplished artisans le
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Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
Celebrating the long history of Hispanic culture in New Mexico, this museum places the religious and domestic art of the region in the context of the Spanish colonial experience worldwide. The carved statues and paintings of saints familiar from churches throughout the state are di
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Larz Anderson Auto Museum & Park
Larz and Isabel Anderson, a high-society couple, bought their first automobile in 1899: a Winton Runabout. It was the first of 32 autos that they would purchase over the next 50 years. America’s oldest motorcar collection is now on display in the carriage house on the grounds of th
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Great Sand Dunes National Park
Landscapes collide in a shifting sea of sand at Great Sand Dunes National Park , making you wonder whether a spaceship has whisked you to another planet. The 30-sq-mile dune park - the tallest sand peak rises 700ft above the valley floor - is squeezed between the jagged 14,000ft pe
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Goliad State Park
The focus of this park just south of town is the huge and restored Mission Espiritu Santo . Dating to the 18th century, this was an important site during the Spanish colonial era. Massively rebuilt, you can get a sense of that time in the echoey chapel. Dont miss the museum in the
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Denver Botanic Gardens
If you’re hankering for greenery, this 23-acre expanse of Rocky Mountains shrubbery is the perfect place in which to hide from the hustle and bustle of the city. Local flora mixes it up with relatives from faraway continents such as Australia and Africa. Exhibitions and events are
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Ermita de la Caridad
The Catholic diocese purchased some of the bayfront land from Deering’s Villa Vizcaya estate and built a shrine here for its displaced Cuban parishioners. Symbolizing a beacon, it faces the homeland, exactly 290 miles due south. There is also a mural that depicts Cuban history. Aft
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End of the Road
Quite. The road ends where the lava says it ends, having swamped this coastal section of Chain of Craters Road repeatedly between 1969 and 1996. The Road Closed sign, almost entirely buried in lava, is a classic photo op. Theres a simple info board and portable toilets, plus a rang
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Brickell Key
Brickell Key looks like a floating porcupine with condos for quills, and is worth visiting to get a scary glimpse of a world where real-estate barons rule unopposed. To live the life of Miami glitterati, come here, pretend you belong, and head into a patrician hangout like the Mand
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