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Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology
South of the Campanile in Kroeber Hall, this museum includes exhibits from indigenous cultures around the world, including ancient Peruvian, Egyptian and African items. There’s also a large collection highlighting native Californian cultures. Closed for renovations until 2015.
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Pa
Rte 9336 cuts through the soft heart of the park, past long fields of marsh prairie, white, skeletal forests of bald cypress and dark clumps of mahogany hammock. Further on the Pa-hay-okee Overlook is a raised platform that peeks over one of the prettiest bends in the river of gras
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Menemsha Harbor
Virtually unchanged since it appeared in the movie Jaws 40 years ago, Menemsha is a relaxing outpost to explore. Basin Rd borders a harbor of fishing boats on one side and dunes on the other, ending at the public Menemsha Beach . Sunsets here are nothing short of spectacular.
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Oldest House
Also known as the González-Alvarez House, this is the oldest surviving Spanish-era home in Florida, dating to the early 1700s and sitting on a site occupied since the 1600s. The house is part of a complex that also contains two small historical museums and a lovely ornamental garde
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Norman Rockwell Exhibition
In Arlington, a 10-mile drive north of Bennington, a tiny maple syrup shop (the sweet stuff is made on site) houses this exhibition of 500 of Rockwells Saturday Evening Post covers and prints. It also shows a short film about the artist, who lived in this town from 1939 to 1953.
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Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
Stuffed with a hodgepodge of historical written artifacts, this detour is for history nerds and book and music lovers. One of a dozen Karpeles manuscript museums nationwide, the rotating exhibits at this museum often spotlight literary masterworks, from Shakespeare to Sherlock Holm
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Classical Gas
As you drive through Embudo, your eye will inevitably be caught by the array of ancient gas pumps and Route 66 paraphernalia outside Classical Gas. What’s inside is even better: a dazzling array of historic neon signs, put together as a true labor of love by retiree Johnnie Meier.
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Cheim & Read
With its stock of artists including Bill Jensen, Jannis Kounellis, Jenny Holzer and Tal R, Cheim & Read showcases everything from giant canvases to bombastic sculptures. If the timing is right, you might catch William Egglestons evocative photographs hanging on the wall.
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Florida Caverns State Park
This 1300-acre park on the Chipola River has fascinating caves unique to Florida. Eerie stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone (formed by water flowing over rock) fill the lighted caves, along with calcified shapes formed over the centuries as calcite has bubbled through the stone.
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Isle Royale National Park
Totally free of vehicles and roads, Isle Royale, a 210-sq-mile island in Lake Superior, is certainly the place to go for peace and quiet. It gets fewer visitors in a year than Yellowstone National Park gets in a day, which means the 1200 moose creeping through the forest are all yo
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Grand Park
Everything from free yoga to spectacular free concerts and DJ sets to long days of lounging and people-watching happen at this new park that cascades from the Music Center down to City Hall, with gushing fountains, a manicured lawn and plenty of benches on each tier. It even has wi
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Thomas Condon Paleontology Center
Visit this excellent paleontology center 2 miles north of US 26 at the Sheep Rock Unit. Displays include a three-toed horse and petrified dung-beetle balls, along with many other fossils and geologic history exhibits. Note that staffing issues mean the center is occasionally closed
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Swinging Bridge
Built in 1911 and rebuilt after the 1992 hurricane, this narrow wood and cable suspension bridge spans the Hanapepe River just before it snakes inland between stark red-earth cliffs. It does swing and moan a bit in the wind. Its tucked behind the Aloha Spice Company. No diving!
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University of Pennsylvania (U Penn)
University City, separated from downtown Philly by the Schuylkill River, feels like one big college town. Thats because its home to both Drexel University and the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1740. The leafy, bustling campus makes a pleasant afternoon stroll.
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Extending some 70 miles from south of Nags Head to the south end of Ocracoke Island, this fragile necklace of islands remains blissfully free from overdevelopment. Natural attractions include local and migratory water birds, marshes, woodlands, dunes and miles of empty beaches.
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Mill Ends Park
Having the largest park (Forest Park) within city limits perhaps isnt an oddity, but having the smallest one might be. Mill Ends Park – located on the median strip at SW Naito Parkway and Taylor St – is a circle of green 24in in diameter (its the reputed home of leprechauns).
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Tillamook Forest Center
Located 22 miles east of Tillamook on Hwy 6, this excellent forest center educates the public on forest fires and the areas first white settlers. Cross a 250ft-long suspension bridge, watch salmon migrating, climb a (reproduction) fire lookout tower and tour the surrounding forest.
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Parducci Wine Cellars
Sustainably grown, harvested and produced, ‘America’s Greenest Winery’ produces affordable, bold, earthy reds. The tasting room, lined in brick and soft light, is a perfect little cave-like environment to get out of the summer heat, sip wine and chat about sustainability practices.
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Oceanside Pier
This wooden pier extends more than 1900ft out to sea. Bait-and-tackle shops rent poles to the many anglers who line its wooden fences. Two major surf competitions – the West Coast Pro-Am and the National Scholastic Surf Association (NSSA) – take place near the pier each June.
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John Young Museum of Art
A short walk downhill from the UH Campus Center, the John Young Museum of Art features 20th-century Hawaii painter John Young’s collection of artifacts from the Pacific islands, Africa and Asia, mostly ceramics, pottery and sculpture. Although it’s not huge, it’s worth a quick visi
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