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Driehaus Museum
Set in the exquisite Nickerson Mansion, the Driehaus Museum immerses visitors in Gilded Age decorative arts and architecture. Youll feel like a Great Gatsby character as you wander the three floors stuffed with sumptuous objets and stained glass. Guided tours ($5 extra) are availab
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Hollyhock House
Oil heiress Aline Barnsdall commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design this hilltop home in 1919. As happens with rich eccentrics and stubborn geniuses, the project ended sourly and was finished by architect Rudolph Schindler. Due to Wright’s Romanza-style design there’s an easy flo
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Ernest Coe Visitor Center
As you go past Homestead and Florida City, the farmland loses its uniformity and the flat land becomes more tangled, wild and studded with pine and cypress. After a few more miles you’ll enter Everglades National Park at this friendly visitor center. Have a look at the excellent ex
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Castle Tucker
OK, so its not really a castle. Still, Wiscassets grandest and best-situated mansion has a certain regal air about it. Judge Silas Lee had the Federal-style house built in 1807 to resemble a Scottish manor. It was later sold to a sea captain and today it remains a marvelous refuge
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Bartholomew Park
The top near-town outdoors destination is 375-acre Bartholomew Park, off Castle Rd, where you can picnic beneath giant oaks and hike two miles of trails, with hilltop vistas to San Francisco. The Palladian Villa , at the park’s entrance, is a recreation of Count Haraszthy’s origina
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Andrea Rosen Gallery
Oversized installations are the norm at this spacious gallery, where curators fill every inch of space (and the annex, Gallery 2, next door) in interesting ways. Rosen opened her gallery in 1990 and quickly made a name for herself. She has showcased John Currins pale portraits, Fel
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Ala Wai Canal
The Ala Wai Canal was created in 1922 to drain the rice paddies, marshes and swamps that would become present-day Waikiki. Running from Kapahulu Ave, the waterway runs in a straight line down the back of Waikiki before turning left and out to sea between the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor an
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United Fruit Company
A cornucopia of tropical produce graces the entrance to this building. The United Fruit Company, infamous for controversial neocolonial practices in Central America, was based here from the 1930s until the 1970s. For many decades, the company held a virtual monopoly on the banana t
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Storyteller Statue
This bronze statue just off Kalakaua Ave represents The Storytellers, the keepers of Hawaiian culture. For centuries, women have been at the top of Hawaiian oral traditions, and the storytellers preserve the identity of their people and land by reciting poems, songs, chants and gen
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State Library, Archives and Museum
The Alaska State Museum was being demolished and rebuilt when we visited, with plans to reopen in 2016. Called SLAM (State Library, Archives and Museum), the new $140 million building will have four times the floor space as the old museum and will house a gift store, cafeteria, aud
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Historic Fort Stockton
You can view several original and reconstructed buildings of a 19th-century fort on the Texas frontier at Historic Fort Stockton. The site includes Barracks No 1, a reconstructed building housing the Fort Museum , where exhibits and a short video describe the posts history. Living
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Hale Paʻahao Prison
A remnant of the whaling era, this coral stone jail was built in 1852 and looks much as it did 150 years ago. One of the tiny reconstructed cells displays a list of arrests in 1855. The top three offenses were drunkenness (330 arrests), ‘furious riding’ (89) and lascivious conduct
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Kailua Pier
Kailua Bay was once a major cattle-shipping area, where animals were stampeded into the water and forced to swim to steamers waiting to transport them to Honolulu slaughterhouses. Now locals come to swim at lunchtime and canoe clubs launch their vessels. The Hawaiian International
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Hancock Cemetery
Opposite the church, Hancock Cemetery is the final resting place of many notable Quincy residents, including most of the Quincy and Adams families. The Adams family vault, near the street, was the original site of the graves of the presidents and their wives, before they were inter
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Jungle Island
Jungle Island, packed with tropical birds, alligators, orangutans, chimps, lemurs, a (wait for it Napoleon Dynamite fans) liger (a cross between a lion and a tiger) and a Noah’s Ark of other animals, is a ton of fun. It’s one of those places kids (justifiably) beg to go, so just gi
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Ironstone Vineyards
The unusually family-friendly atmosphere makes the wine feel secondary at Ironstone. There’s a natural spring waterfall, a mechanical pipe organ, frequent exhibits by local artists, and blooming grounds. By the deli, the museum displays the world’s largest crystalline gold leaf spe
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Cape May Point State Park
The 190-acre Cape May Point State Park, just off Lighthouse Ave, has 2 miles of trails, plus the famous Cape May Lighthouse. Built in 1859, the 157ft lighthouse recently underwent a $2 million restoration, and its completely reconstructed light is visible as far as 25 miles out to
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Bodega Head
At the peninsula’s tip, Bodega Head rises 265ft above sea level. To get there (and see the open ocean), head west from Hwy 1 onto Eastshore Rd, then turn right at the stop sign onto Bay Flat Rd. It’s great for whale-watching . Landlubbers enjoy hiking above the surf, where several
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AC Gilberts Discovery Village
Built to honor Salem native AC Gilbert, who invented the Erector Set, this hands-on childrens museum – located in two colorful arts-and-crafts houses – combines educational exhibits with plenty of play areas. The highlight has to be the outdoor tower maze, with wood bridges and cli
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11th Street Bridge Park
It wont come to fruition until 2018 or so, but keep an eye on the space at 11th St SE and the Anacostia River. The city is converting the piers from an old bridge into a mod park that will span the water, linking touristy DC to the neglected Anacostia neighborhood. Play spaces, pub
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