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Yorktown Victory Center
The state-run Yorktown Victory Center is an interactive, living-history museum that focuses on reconstruction, reenactment and the Revolutions impact on the people who lived through it. At the re-created encampment, costumed Continental soldiers fire cannons and discuss food prepar
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Woodward Park
The citys largest park has 300 acres of barbecue facilities, lakes and ponds, a Japanese garden (adult/child $3/50¢) and a huge amphitheater for Shakespeare and other performances. A 6-mile network of bike trails connects to the Lewis S Eaton Trail , which runs 22 miles from the no
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Tidal Flats
When the tide goes out on Cape Cod Bay, the flats – basically giant sandbars – offer opportunities to commune with crabs, clams and gulls, and to take in brilliant sunsets. Best access to the tidal flats is via the Point of Rocks or Ellis Landing Beaches. Parking stickers are requi
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State Office Building
The State Office Building is locally as the SOB. From the outdoor court on the 8th floor there is a spectacular view of the channel and Douglas Island, while in the lobby is a massive Kimball organ dating back to 1928. Every Friday at noon a performance is given, a good reason to j
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Saturday Market
For great fun and a quintessential introduction to Eugenes peculiar vitality, dont miss the Saturday Market, held each Saturday from March through November at E 8th Ave and Oak St. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas its renamed the Holiday Market and moves indoors to the Lane Event
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Shawnee National Forest
An exception to the Illinois flat farmland is the green southernmost section, punctuated by rolling Shawnee National Forest and its rocky outcroppings. The area has numerous state parks and recreation areas good for hiking, climbing, swimming, fishing and canoeing, particularly aro
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Seamens Bethel
The small chapel called Seamen’s Bethel , across from the Whaling Museum, was a refuge for sailors from the rigors and stresses of maritime life. Melville immortalized it in Moby-Dick . ‘In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman’s Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen… who
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Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill
Thirty minutes southwest of Lexington is Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill , home to a community of the Shaker religious sect until the early 1900s. Tour 14 impeccably restored buildings, set amid buttercup meadows and winding stone paths. Theres an inn and restaurant, and a gift sho
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Paula Cooper Gallery
An icon of the art world, Paula was one of the first to move from SoHo to Chelsea in 1996 (she was also one of SoHos pioneers, opening the first art gallery south of Houston St back in 1968). She continues to push boundaries as she did for her exhibition The Clock when the gallery
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Plumas County Museum
In the block behind the courthouse, this multifloor county museum has flowering gardens, as well as hundreds of historical photos and relics from the county’s pioneer and Maidu days, its early mining and timber industries, and construction of the Western Pacific Railroad. For the p
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Heʻeia Pier
Just north of, and run in conjunction with, the state park is one of the Windward Coast’s only small boat harbors. It’s fun just to watch the comings and goings of local boat owners. On weekends they head out to the ‘sandbar’, a raised spit in the bay that becomes a mooring party p
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Hannibal Square Heritage Center
As far back as 1881, Winter Parks Hannibal Square was home to African Americans employed as carpenters, farmers and household help. The Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park 1900–1980, on permanent display at this little museum, celebrates and pres
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Baltimore Maritime Museum
Ship-lovers can take a tour through four historic ships: a Coast Guard cutter that saw action in Pearl Harbor, a 1930 lightship, a submarine active in WWII and the USS Constellation – one of the last sail-powered warships built (in 1797) by the US Navy. Admission to the 1856 Seven
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Chetco Valley Historical Society Museum
Once a stagecoach stop, the 1857 Blake House is now home to this museum. Stop in to see a quilt from 1844, an old Native American cedar canoe and an iron face supposedly cast resembling Queen Elizabeth I. Outside is the worlds largest Monterey cypress. Off-hours private tours are p
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Centro Cultural de la Raza
The center hosts powerful exhibitions of Mexican and Native American art, including temporary exhibits of contemporary indigenous artwork, dance, theater and musical performances. The round, steel building, originally a water tank, is impressively painted with 240 feet of murals. I
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Frenchmen Art Market
Independent artists and artisans line this alleyway market, which has built a reputation as one of the finest spots in town to find a unique gift to take home as your New Orleans souvenir. Art, in this case, includes clever T-shirts, hand-crafted jewelry, trinkets and, yes, a nice
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Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum
Home to Baltimores most famous adopted son from 1832 to 1835, it was here that the macabre poet and writer first found fame after winning a $50 short-story contest. After moving around, Poe later returned to Baltimore in 1849, where he died under mysterious circumstances. His grave
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East End Historic District
Bordering the Strand, the residential East End Historic District has scores of pretty old houses, from simple cottages to Greek Revival mansions, some of which may be featured on the annual Historic Homes Tour . A good driving and cycling guide and map is available at the visitor c
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Dumbarton Oaks Park
Next door to Dumbarton Oaks garden, Dumbarton Oaks Park was once part of the estate but is now a public woodland beloved by joggers and dog walkers. Access it via Lovers Lane (a paved path 200ft east of R and 31st Sts) and enter a world of forested trails, quaint stone bridges, min
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Demetria Estate
This hilltop retreat has the curving arches and thick wooden doors of your hospitable Greek uncle’s country house, with epic views of vineyards and rolling hillsides. Tastings are by appointment only, but worth it just to sample the biodynamically farmed Chardonnay, Syrah and Viogn
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