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Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum
Investigating ancient Chinook culture, along with the exploration and trade of successive Spanish, Russian, British and American explorers, is this fine museum. It also features the Old Ilwaco, a restored narrow-gauge passenger train also known as the Nahcotta, that ran along the p
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Colorado Sports Hall of Fame
This temple to Colorado’s sporting prowess is in the Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium. It has exhibits on the Broncos and themes grouped under such purple headings as ‘endurance’ and ‘sacrifice.’ It’s nothing to go out of your way for, but a good way to kill time before
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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
At 208ft, this striking black-and-white-striped edifice is the tallest brick lighthouse in the US and is one of North Carolinas most iconic images. Climb the 248 steps then check out the interesting exhibits about local history in the Museum of the Sea, located in the lighthouse ke
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Wentworth
This 42-room place south of the town center was home to New Hampshires first royal governor and served as the colonys government center from 1741 to 1766. The lilacs on its grounds are descendants of the first lilacs planted in America, which were brought over from England by Gover
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The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
The Butler Center is a research department of the Central Arkansas Library System dedicated to promoting an understanding of the states arts and culture. To this end, it boasts a series of lovely art galleries stocked with the work of local artists; an original piece or print makes
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St Mark’s Cathedral
Go north on Broadway (as the dandyish boutiques turn to well-maintained houses with manicured lawns) until it turns into 10th Ave E and you’re within a block of Volunteer Park. At the neo-Byzantine St Mark’s Cathedral, various choirs perform for free on Sunday, accompanied by a 394
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San Angelo State Park
This state park is on the western outskirts of town, accessible via FM 2288 (Loop 2288) off W Ave N (which becomes Arden Rd west of downtown), US 87 or US 67. The 7600-acre park surrounds the 1950s reservoir, OC Fisher Lake. More than 50 miles of trails are popular with animal- and
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Sanctuary
This historic house was built by Evariste Blanc from 1816 to 1822 on land originally granted in 1720–1 to French Canadians. The once-swampy property was later transferred to Don Andrés Almonaster y Roxas, the real-estate speculator who commissioned St Louis Cathedral on Jackson Sq
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Ping Tom Memorial Park
Ping Tom Memorial Park offers dramatic city-railroad-bridge views. In summer, Chicago Water Taxi runs a groovy boat down the Chicago River from Michigan Ave (the dock is on the bridges northwest side, by the Wrigley Building) to the park. It costs $4 one way ($5 on weekends), and t
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Pinball Hall of Fame
You may have more fun at this no-frills arcade than playing slot machines back on the Strip. Tim Arnold shares his collection of 200-plus vintage pinball and video games with the public. Take time to read the handwritten curatorial cards explaining the unusual history behind these
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Prince William Sound Museum
This museum occupies an ill-lit room beside the Anchor Inn Grocery Store. The space has lots of tidy displays about Whittier’s military history. Its long on storytelling and short on artifacts, and the in-depth tales of the pilots, surveyors and early engineers that built this town
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History Colorado Center
Discover Colorados frontier roots and high-tech modern triumphs at this sharp, smart and charming museum. There are plenty of interactive exhibits, including a Jules Verne-esque Time Machine that you push across a giant map of Colorado to explore seminal moments in the Centennial S
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Hancock Shaker Village
Just west of the town of Pittsfield is Hancock Shaker Village , a fascinating museum illustrating the lives of the Shakers, the religious sect that founded the village in 1783. The Shakers believed in communal ownership, the sanctity of work and celibacy, the latter of which proved
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Americana at Brand
If you dig The Grove in Mid-City, then you’ll enjoy this narrow, set-piece shopping mall, developed by the same folks, that feels like an extended walking street. There’s an 18-screen multiplex, 19 restaurants, and some very good, albeit very corporate, shopping, including an affor
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Allegany Museum
Set in the old courthouse, this is an intriguing place to delve into Cumberlands past, with exhibits by local folk artist and woodcarver Claude Yoder; a model of the old shanty town that sprang up along the canal; 1920s firefighting gear; beautifully garbed mechanized puppets and o
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Grady Market
Built in the late 1880s and rebuilt after a fire in 1900, this hulking brick space was originally a ships chandlery and general store, as well as the home of a French consulate. Today its a sprawling market of antiques traders and galleries running the gamut from textiles to painti
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Colorado Ski Museum
Humble but informative, this museum takes you from the invention of skiing to the trials of the Tenth Mountain Division, a decorated WWII alpine unit that trained in these mountains. There are also hilarious fashions from the past, as well as the fledgling Colorado Ski and Snowboar
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Children’s Museum of Tampa
Located near Lowry Park Zoo and also known as Kid City, this place has interactive displays and a permanent, 45,000-sq-ft outdoor exhibition that kids love: child-size replicas of 13 buildings, each with activities. Care to try your hand as a judge in the courthouse or a reporter a
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Cimarron Railroad Exhibit
A restored old steam locomotive, boxcar and caboose sit on a narrow-gauge bridge crossing the Cimarron River, the last piece of railroad infrastructure from the Denver and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad. The exhibit is within the Curecanti National Recreation Area, about 20 miles
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Francisco Fort Museum
This museum is set on the site of the original 1862 fort, with a couple of the real deal buildings still left. It was built by 12 men as a base of operations for settlement, trade and Indian protection – meaning protection from Native Americans, which involved attacking the Ute and
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