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Los Angeles Times
News junkies can get their fix on a free tour of the Los Angeles Times building. Explore either the print works or the editorial offices, learn the paper’s history and the publishing process, just don’t ask about the dark and murky future of newspapers. Kids under 10 can’t come and
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Staten Island Museum
Behind the police station (west of the ferry terminal), the Staten Island Museum offers a small, eclectic booty of artifacts, covering topics as diverse as local history and natural science. One permanent display explores the boat you just rode in on. There’s a second branch at Snu
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Whitehead Memorial Museum
Judge Roy Bean is buried at Whitehead Memorial Museum, an idiosyncratic and endlessly fascinating place. Check out the room devoted to border radio (legendary 50s DJ Wolfman Jack got his start here in the late 1940s) and a 1287-item nativity-scene collection amassed by the late Bea
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Miami Childrens Museum
This museum, located between South Beach and downtown Miami, isn’t exactly a museum. It feels more like an uberplayhouse, with areas for kids to practice all sorts of adult activities – banking and food shopping, caring for pets, reporting scoops as a TV news anchor in a studio, an
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Monument with Standing Beast
French sculptor Jean Dubuffet created the piece, which some call Snoopy in a Blender. The 1984 white fiberglass work looks a little like inflated puzzle pieces and has a definite Keith Haring-esque feel to it. As you can see by the large number of kids crawling around inside, its d
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Millennium Bridge
Allow us to be geeky for a second: this is the world’s first cable-stayed bridge using a post-tensioned structural construction. If the technical jargon goes over your head, you’ll be impressed by just looking up – the sweeping forms of the cables and white mast are a dramatic sigh
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Manatee Observation Center
A small center educating the public on the plight of the manatee. Videos and exhibits teach boaters how to avoid hurting the creatures – and the rest of us how our lifestyle has indirectly eradicated most of the manatee population. Manatee sightings are common-ish in winter in wate
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Pasadena Museum of History
A palatial beaux-arts mansion that once housed the Finnish consulate, this interesting museum now presents changing exhibits on some facets of the culture, history and art of Pasadena and its neighboring communities. If you want to see the precious antiques and furnishings of the h
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Pacifica Hawaiʻi
Much-lauded sea salt is produced close to the town center in the front yard of a house belonging to well-known (among salties) salt-maker Nancy Gove. Free tours (one hour, by appointment) reveal that there are more mysteries to making salt from ocean water than youd imagine. The sa
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Nauticus
This massive, interactive, maritime-themed museum has exhibits on undersea exploration, aquatic life of the Chesapeake Bay and US Naval lore. The museums highlight is clambering around the decks and inner corridors of the USS Wisconsin . Built in 1943, it was the largest (887ft lon
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East Texas Oil Museum
Many things have made Texas Texas: the Alamo, breakfast tacos…but one thing made Kilgore Kilgore, and that’s oil. Trace the boom – and bust – at the East Texas Oil Museum . While the museum’s name hardly inspires rapture, the vivid exhibits do an admirable re-creation of Kilgore’s
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Crocker Art Museum
Housed in the Crocker familys ornate Victorian mansion (and sprawling additions), this museum is stunning as much for its striking architecture (old and new) as its collections. There are some very fine works by both California painters and European masters. The contemporary collec
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Frontier Movie Town & Trading Post
Wander through a bunkhouse, saloon and other buildings used in Western movies filmed locally, including The Outlaw Josey Wales, and learn some tricks of the trade (such as short doorways to make movie stars seem taller). This classic roadside attraction sells all the Western duds a
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Elsinore Theatre
This dazzling Tudor-Gothic landmark, opened in 1926 and once a silent-movie theater, is now primarily a venue for theater and concerts. Classic movies are shown weekly from October to May, with live accompaniment (for silent movies) on a 1778-pipe Wurlitzer organ – one of the fines
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Jacksonville Cemetery
This well-maintained, 32-acre cemetery is worth a wander to explore historic pioneer grave sites chronicling wars, epidemics and other untimely deaths. For two days in October, the Meet the Pioneers program has volunteers in period costumes leading guided tours. The Chamber of Comm
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Indonesian Embassy
The Indonesian Embassy now sits in the old Walsh-McLean House. Gold-mining magnate Thomas Walsh commissioned the home in 1903. He embedded in the foundation a gold nugget, which has never been found. This also was the costliest house in the city when it was built (not surprising, c
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Harpo Studios
For 25 years The Oprah Winfrey Show taped at this studio, which the media queen owns. But in 2011 she packed up and left town for LA. The studio technically is still in business, though not much goes on. Fans occasionally drop by to snap a picture with the ‘Harpo Studios’ sign at t
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Concentration Mill & Leaching Plant
Was used to process the copper ore through a multistage process. You can only enter the mill on a two-hour tour led by St Elias Alpine Guides, but this is highly recommended both for the stunning views from the top floors and the chance to get up close and personal with the hulking
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Coastal Discovery Museum
For an introduction to the non-suburban aspects of Hilton Head, stop by this museum on the 2nd floor of the visitors center, to see exhibits on coastal history, archaeology and ecology. This is also the place to arrange nature and history tours, sea-turtle watches during the summer
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Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary
On the shores of Humboldt Bay, this has 5 miles of walking trails and outstanding birding. The Redwood Region Audubon Society offers guided walks Saturdays at 8:30am, rain or shine, from the parking lot at I St’s south end. Friends of Arcata Marsh offer guided tours Saturdays at 2p
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