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Laʻie Point State Wayside
Crashing surf, a lava arch and a slice of Hawaiian folk history await at Laʻie Point. The tiny offshore islands are said to be the surviving pieces of a moʻo (lizard spirit) slain by a legendary warrior. To get here from the highway, head seaward on Anemoku St, opposite Laʻie Shopp
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Hogan Jazz Archive
Jazz heads, and really anyone interested in New Orleans music, should pop into the Hogan Jazz Archive; most of its great wealth of material is not on exhibit; the librarian will retrieve items from the stacks for you. That collection includes stacks of 78rpm recordings like early s
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Ice Museum
Most of this museums ice art is the work of Steve Brice, one of the worlds premier ice sculptors. There are tours every two hours from 11am to 7pm to see the life-size jousting knights, chandeliers and a bar where martinis are served in ice glasses. Just remember the ice loo is onl
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Hwy 9
East of the main park entrance, Hwy 9 rises in a series of six tight switchbacks before the 1.1-mile Zion-Mt Carmel Tunnel, an engineering marvel constructed in the late 1920s. It then leads quickly into dramatically different terrain – a landscape of etched multicolor slickrock, c
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Boca Raton Childrens Museum
Housed in the 1925 Singing Pines home, one of the oldest wooden structures in town, this childrens museum has rooms with various themes, like Oscars Post Office (where kids can make their own postcards), KidsCents banking and FACES Multicultural Room (with musical instruments, try-
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Bay Area Discovery Museum
Just under the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, at East Fort Baker, this excellent hands-on activity museum is specifically designed for children. Permanent (multilingual) exhibits include a wave workshop, a small underwater tunnel and a large outdoor play area with a shipwre
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Azalea Park
This is a glorious, hilly park showcasing hundreds of azaleas, along with other pretty flora. Blooms are best from April to June. On Memorial Day weekend, the park becomes the focus of the annual Azalea Festival , with a floral parade and craft fair. There are Sunday concerts in Ju
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Guidepost
This whimsical guidepost that points in 16 different directions – including the Troll, the Lenin statue and the Milky Way – appeared anonymously on Fremont Ave in 1995, the result of one of the neighborhood’s periodic art attacks. Unlike other ephemeral sculptures, the guidepost st
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Clyfford Still Museum
Dedicated exclusively to the work and legacy of 20th-century American abstract expressionist Clyfford Still, this fascinating museums collection includes over 2400 works by the powerful and narcissistic master of bold. In his will, Still insisted that his body of work only be exhib
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Enid A Haupt Garden
The pretty green space behind the Smithsonian Castle is actually a rooftop garden, with Asian moon gates and Moorish-style geometric flower beds that reflect the personalities of the Sackler Gallery and Museum of African Art below. It’s usually a peaceful retreat from the Mall madn
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Dinosaur Museum
Despite being born of owners Steven and Sylvia Czerkas’ personal collection, the Dinosaur Museum is quite ambitious; the goal is to cover the complete history of the world’s dinosaurs. Mummified remains and fossil replicas go a long way toward this goal, but most interesting is the
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Culinary Arts Museum
Johnson & Wales oddity of a museum displays about 300,000 objects connected in some way to the culinary arts. Ogle a cookbook collection dating back to the 15th century, resist fingering presidential cutlery and peruse over 4000 menus from around the world. To reach the museum,
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Johnston Ridge Observatory
Situated at the end of Hwy 504 and looking directly into the mouth of the crater, the observatory has exhibits that depict the geologic events surrounding the 1980 blast and how they advanced the science of volcano forecasting and monitoring. The paved 1-mile round-trip Eruption Tr
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Miss Hatties Bordello Museum
Few can resist the come-on of Miss Hattie’s Bordello Museum, which operated as a downtown house of pleasure from 1896 until the Texas Rangers shut it down in 1946. Rooms re-create the plush velvet look considered essential back in the day, but the best feature is the stories of the
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McCarren Park
The grassy 35-acre McCarren Park makes a good picnic spot on warm days, while on sweltering days you might want to head to the pool – a massive and historic pool that reopened in 2012 after being closed for almost three decades. Go early to avoid the worst of the crowds. From mid-N
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Mary Bartelme Park
The neighborhoods stroller-pushing families and dog-walking hipsters get their exercise in Mary Bartelme Park. Five off-kilter stainless steel arches form the gateway in; kids play in the mist the sculptures release in summer. Grassy mounds dot the park and provide good lookout poi
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Mauna Kea Tea
If youre into tea, organic farming and philosophical inquiry, arrange a tour at this small-scale, family-run plantation. Its green and oolong teas are intended to represent the inherent flavor of the land rather than artificial fertilizers. You can also meet the farmers at the Waim
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Nanakuli Beach Park
This beach park lines the town in a broad, sandy stretch that offers swimming, snorkeling and diving during the summer. In winter, high surf can create rip currents and dangerous shorebreaks. The park has a playground, sports fields and beach facilities. To get to the beach park, t
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Musical Wonder House
This 32-room Victorian sea captains mansion tinkles with the sound of more than 5000 music boxes, player pianos, singing teapots, musical birds and other whimsical auditory delights. Half and full tours let you explore downstairs; only the grand tour allows entrance to the rarest m
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Lockwood
This is one of the best surviving Second Empire–style country houses in the nation, so its no wonder the 62-room mansion was chosen as the set for the 2004 version of The Stepford Wives. The 2nd floor houses the Music Box Society Internationals permanent collection of music boxes,
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