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Zilker Park
This 350-acre park is a slice of green heaven, lined with hiking and biking trails. The park also provides access to the famed Barton Springs natural swimming pool and Barton Creek Greenbelt. Find boat rentals, a miniature train and a botanical garden, too. On weekends from April t
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Westport Maritime Museum
This former Coast Guard station was built in 1939 and boasts some great period photos and artifacts of seafaring days gone by. A separate building houses the six-ton, 18ft-high Fresnel lens , manufactured in France in 1888, that beamed for over 70 years from the lighthouse of Destr
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Sugarbush Farm
While this working farm at the end of a bucolic road also collects maple sap, cheddars the king here. See how its made and sample the 14 varieties – from the mild sage cheddar to the jalapeño and cayenne pepper variety to the prize-winning hickory and smoked cheddar. Wax-coated bar
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St Vincent’s Infant Asylum
This large red-brick orphanage was built in 1864 with assistance from federal troops occupying the city. It helped relieve the overcrowded orphanages filled with youngsters of all races who had lost their parents to epidemics and the Civil War. The orphanage is now a budget guestho
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Storer College Campus
Founded immediately after the Civil Long, Storer College grew from a one-room schoolhouse for freed slaves to a respected college open to all races and creeds. It closed in 1955. You can freely wander the historic campus, reachable by taking the path to upper town, past St Peters c
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Swetsville Zoo
Bill Swets, a former farmer, volunteer firefighter and insomniac, created a scrap-metal menagerie during his restless nights, a whimsical roadside curiosity. Swets’ creations are a coy lesson in creative recycling – everything from the grinning spider made from a VW bug, to the hea
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Spanish Military Hospital Museum
Not for the faint of heart, guided tours of this museum discuss Colonial-era medical techniques in all their gory glory: amputations, leeching, the whole shebang. Housed in a reconstruction of the original hospital, the museum will make you very glad youre not a patient in 1791! Di
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Seminole Canyon State Historical Park
Seminole Canyon State Historical Park , 9 miles west of Comstock, is famous for Fate Bell Shelter, a natural canvas of ancient rock art. If the art here were merely decorative, it would be magnificent. But the pictographs are more than drawings: They’re windows into their creators’
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Sangre de Cristo Art Center
Set in three brick buildings, housing seven galleries that feature both fine and regional historical arts and crafts, this is more than just Pueblo’s art museum. It’s also an arts center with more than 100 music, dance and fine-arts classes each quarter. Admission also includes ent
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Myles Standish State Forest
About six miles south of Plymouth, this 16,000-acre park is the largest public recreation area in southeastern Massachusetts. It contains 15 miles of biking and hiking trails and 16 ponds – two with beaches. Its a wonderful wilderness for picnicking, fishing, swimming and camping.
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Redondo & Torrance Beaches
These beaches, which technically join in one contiguous stretch of sand, have their beauty and charms, but the middle section thins out, exposing drain pipes and breakwaters at low tide. It’s best to stick to the northern stretch of Redondo (which is actually south of the pier), an
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Center for Puppetry Arts
A wonderland for visitors of all ages and hands-down one of Atlantas most unique attractions, the museum houses a treasury of puppets, some of which you get to operate yourself. A major addition is the Worlds of Puppetry Museum, housing the most comprehensive collection of Jim Hens
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Mary Tyler Moore statue
Mary Tyler Moore (of 70s TV fame) put Minneapolis on the pop-culture map. The spot where she threw her hat in the air during the shows opening sequence is now marked by a great, cheesy statue depicting our girl doing just that. This statue has been temporarily moved to the visitor
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Lower Bourbon Street
At St Philip St, Bourbon shifts from a Dante’s Inferno –style circle of neon-lit hell into an altogether more agreeable stretch of historical houses, diners and bars, many of which cater to the gay community. In fact, said gay bars are the loudest residents on this, the quieter, mo
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Waimea Town Center
Surprisingly, Waimea offers some interesting architecture, including the neoclassical First Hawaiian Bank (1929), the art-deco Waimea Theater (1938), and a historic church, the crushed coral-covered Waimea United Church of Christ , first built during the early missionary era and fa
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Worlds Largest Ball of Twine
Its in Darwin, 60 miles west of Minneapolis on US 12. OK, so there are three other Midwest twine balls also claiming to be the largest. But Darwin maintains it has the Largest Built by One Person – Francis A Johnson wrapped the 17,400lb whopper on his farm over the course of 29 yea
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Western America Railroad Museum
Rail buffs make a beeline to the Casa del Desierto to marvel at a century’s worth of railroad artifacts, including old timetables, uniforms, china and the Dog Tooth Mountain model railroad. Even when the buildings closed, outside you can see historic locomotives, bright-red caboose
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Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
This museum examines Asian Pacific American culture, focusing on prickly issues such as Chinese settlement in the 1880s and Japanese internment camps in WWII. There are also art exhibits and a preserved immigrant apartment. Guided tours are available; the first Thursday of the mont
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Vincent Arroyo
The tasting room is a garage, where you may even meet Mr Arroyo, known for his all-estate-grown petite sirah and cabernet sauvignon. Theyre distributed nowhere else and are so consistently good that 75% of production is sold before it’s bottled. Tastings are free, but appointments
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Whitman Mission
An erstwhile stop on the Oregon Trail and infamous site of the 1847 Whitman massacre, when white missionary Marcus Whitman and a dozen others were murdered by Cayuse Indians, this potent historic site 7 miles west of Walla Walla contains a museum and marked sites and monuments indi
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