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Sitka Historical Society Museum
Within Sitkas Centennial Building is this museum, which is one room with a good portion of it a gift shop. The rest is crammed with a collection of relics, a model of the town as it appeared in 1867 and displays on Russian Alaska. Outside between the museum and the library is an im
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Keauhou Kahaluʻu Heritage Center
To learn more about the restoration of Keauhous heiau (temples), visit this unstaffed cultural center, where small exhibits and videos also describe holua, the ancient Hawaiian sport of lava-rock sledding, at nearby Heʻeia Bay. The center is on the KTA Super Store side of the mall,
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Kelso Dunes
Rising up to 600ft high, these beautiful ‘singing’ dunes are the country’s third-tallest sand dunes. Under the right conditions they emanate low humming sounds that are caused by shifting sands. Running downhill sometimes jump-starts the effect. The dunes are 3 miles along a graded
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Kalepolepo Beach Park
This compact park beside the headquarters for the Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary is a nice spot for families with younger kids. A grassy lawn is fronted by the ancient Koʻieʻie Fishpond , whose stone walls create a shallow swimming pool with calm waters perfect for wading
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Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center
Langtry is a long way from anywhere, but it has managed to parlay its principal claim to fame into a major tourist attraction on US 90: the Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center , an official state visitor center. Displays cover the life of the legendary Lone Star lawman and include the.41
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Diamond Head Beach Park
Bordering the lighthouse, this rocky beach occasionally draws surfers, snorkelers and tide-poolers, plus a few picnickers. The narrow strand nicknamed Lighthouse Beach is popular with gay men, who pull off Diamond Head Rd onto short, dead-end Beach Rd, then walk east along the shor
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Flagstaff Mountain Trailhead
A trailhead and parking area just below the summit (elev 7283ft) and a short drive from downtown Boulder. The views over Boulder and Denver to the east are great, and the Continental Divide views to the west spectacular. From here, a handful of fun hikes lead to even better vistas.
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Fort Colville Museum
Colville towns most notable attraction has as its centerpiece Keller House, a large bungalow with attractive Craftsman details, built in 1910. Dispersed around the house are reconstructed versions of a pioneer blacksmiths shop, schoolhouse, trappers cabin, sawmill and a fire lookou
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Jack Kerouac Alley
The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great… This ode by the On the Road and Dharma Bums author is embedded in his namesake alley, a fittingly poetic and slightly seedy shortcut between Chinatown and North Beach via Kerouac haunts City Lights an
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Homewood
Barn cats dart about at this down-home winery, where the tasting room is a garage, and the winemaker crafts standout ports and Rhône-style grenache, mourvèdre and Syrah – ‘Da redder, da better – plus some late-harvest dessert wines, including excellent viognier and albariño. Bottle
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Historic RCA Studio B
One of Music Rows most historic studios, this is where Elvis, the Everly Brothers and Dolly Parton all recorded numerous hits. Its marked by the Heartbreak Hotel guitar sculpture emblazoned with a pelvis jutting image of the King. You can tour the studio via the Country Music Hall
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Hempsted Houses
Part of a well-laid-out walking tour are two Hempsted Houses , the wood-framed older one (1678) is one of the oldest 17th-century houses in New England and the oldest in New London. It was maintained by the descendants of the original owners until 1937, having survived the burning
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Hawi Farmers Market
All of the funky, organic, crunchy goodness of North Kohala is presented and sold by all of its funky, organic, crunchy characters at this weekly farmers market, held under the shade of the huge banyan tree off Hwy 250. Pick up honey or mushrooms or sweet potatoes, listen to live,
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CBGB
See what’s become of CBGB, the famous music venue, opened in 1973 and shuttered in 2006, that launched punk rock via the Ramones. Today, not shockingly, it’s a John Varvatos boutique , where racks of rock-inspired $3000 leather jackets have supplanted scraggly headbangers. The old
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Cottonwood Lake
Tucked up against a stark moonscape granite wall on one side and into a gorgeous pine dappled bowl on the other, this is one of the most picturesque picnic spots in the area. Reachable by car or a strenuous bike ride, its another 3 miles on a dirt road to the left off the main coun
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Country Club Plaza
Built in the 1920s, this posh commercial district (centered on Broadway and 47th St) boasts finely detailed, sumptuous Spanish architecture. It’s rich with public art and sculptures – look for the walking tour brochure and check out, at the very least, the Spanish Bullfight Mural (
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Bunker Hill
Part of the national historic area, this coastal battery was known to the military as Hill 400, and was fortified with 155mm guns, ammunition magazines, water tanks, 22 Quonset huts and a concrete command post at the top. You can easily hike to the peak of Bunker Hill along a grave
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Amerind Museum & Art Gallery
About 15 miles east of Benson, in Dragoon, the private, nonprofit Amerind Foundation exhibits Native American artifacts, history and culture from tribes from Alaska to Argentina, from the Ice Age to today. The Western gallery has exceptional works by such renowned artists as Freder
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Alamo Square Park
The pastel Painted Ladies of famed Postcard Row along the east side pale in comparison with the colorful characters along the northwest end of this 1857 Victorian hilltop park. Alamo Squares north side features Barbary Coast baroque mansions at their most bombastic, bedecked with f
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Albert Einstein Memorial
The nicely landscaped grounds in front of the National Academy of Sciences feature DC’s most huggable monument: the Albert Einstein statue. The larger-than-life, sandal-shod, chubby bronze reclines on a bench, while little kids crawl all over him and frolic on a ‘star map,’ which d
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