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Hackberry General Store
The 1934 Hackberry General Store lures passersby with its eccentrically decorated gas station, vintage cars in faded disrepair and rusted-out ironwork. It’s run by a Route 66 memorialist and makes the best spot on this stretch to stop for a cold drink and souvenirs.
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East Village Arts District
Don’t get overly excited just because the words East Village and Arts happen to appear in the same sentence. Still, this rather small corner of Long Beach (between Ocean Blvd and 7th St) does have a funky feel with some groovy cafes, restaurants and boutiques to explore.
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Clairmont Farms
Natural beauty awaits just outside town at this organic family-owned farm, where purple lavender fields bloom like a Monet masterpiece, usually peaking from mid-June to late July. Peruse lavender honey and sea salt and aromatherapy, bath and body products in the small shop.
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City of Las Vegas Museum & Rough Rider Memorial Collection
This small but informative museum chronicles the fabled cavalry unit led by future US president Theodore Roosevelt in the 1898 fight for Cuba. More than one third of the volunteers came from New Mexico, and the museum displays their furniture, clothes and military regalia.
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Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
The highlight at this park on the west bank of the Missouri is On-a-Slant Indian Village , which has five re-created Mandan earth lodges. The fort, with several replica buildings, was Custers last stop before the Battle of Little Bighorn. Its seven miles south of Mandan.
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ExplorOcean
In the Balboa Fun Zone , this newly refurbished museum calls itself an ocean literacy center with critter-filled touch tanks, remotely operated vehicles, the rowboat used by adventurer Roz Savage on her five-year, round-the-world solo voyage, and an innovation lab.
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Casa Grande Trading Post & Petting Zoo
This top-drawer roadside attraction packs five rooms with Chinese art, pioneer-era tools, prehistoric mining gear, bottles excavated from an abandoned hotel, and anything else the owners feel like displaying. Pay $2 extra to feed the goats, llamas and exotic chickens.
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Cape Ann Historical Museum
This tiny museum is a gem – particularly for its paintings by Gloucester native Fitz Hugh Lane. Exhibits also showcase the regions granite quarrying industry and – of course – its maritime history. The museum is in the heart of downtown Gloucester, just north of Main St.
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Canyonlands National Park
Covering 527 sq miles, Canyonlands is Utahs largest and wildest park. Indeed, parts of it are as rugged as almost anywhere on the planet. Arches, bridges, needles, spires, craters, mesas, buttes - Canyonlands is a crumbling, decaying beauty, a vision of ancient earth.
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Bunker Hill Museum
Opposite the Bunker Hill Monument, this red-brick museum contains two floors of exhibits, including historical dioramas, a few artifacts and an impressive 360-degree mural depicting the battle. If you can find where the artist signed his masterpiece, you win a prize.
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ASU Art Museum
This airy, contemporary gallery space has eye-catching art and intriguing exhibits. Architecture fans can tour the circular Gammage Auditorium , Frank Lloyd Wrights last major building. A popular performance venue, it stages primarily Broadway-style musicals and shows.
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Canyon Wind Cellars
In the shadows of red canyon walls, this is an unpretentious, well-established tasting room. The ecofriendly estate is a postcard representation of the area, and its respectable Cab flaunts surprising sophistication. Tours are available on summer weekends at 11am, 1pm and 3pm.
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Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
A nonprofit wildlife center where injured and rescued animals are on display. Particularly of interest are the wood bison, the only herd in the U.S., which are part of a program to reintroduce the extinct-in-Alaska breed. Its also a good spot to see a bear or moose if you havent ye
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Scargo Tower
Built in 1902 on the highest spot in the area – 120ft above sea level – this 38-step, stone tower rising above Scargo Lake gives you grand views of Cape Cod Bay. On clear days you can see all the way to Sandwich and across to Provincetown. To get here, take MA 6A to Scargo Hill Rd.
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Sandwich Glass Museum
Sandwich glass, now prized by collectors, had its heyday in the 19th century, and this heritage is artfully displayed here. But dont think its just a period glass collection – there are also glass-blowing demonstrations given hourly throughout the day and a cool contemporary galler
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Ripleys Believe It Or Not! Museum
San Franciscos already high freak factor gets dialed up to 11 with Ripleys bizarro artifacts and tales of vampires, mutants, and human sacrifices. The cable car made of a quarter of a million matchsticks adds a nice and highly flammable local touch to the Ripleys franchise.
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Pony Express National Museum
The first Pony Express set out, carrying mail from St Jo 2000 miles west to California, in 1860. The service, making the trip in as little as eight days, lasted just 18 months before telegraph lines made it redundant. Its just a few brick-paved streets over from Patee House.
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Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge
Six miles south of town on Hwy 15, the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge features a 2.5-mile self-guided driving loop, the Avocet Trail, that provides views of waterfowl. In fall a few endangered whooping cranes may be spotted among the thousands of migrating sandhill cranes.
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Mission San Buenaventura
Ventura’s Spanish-colonial roots go back to this last mission founded by Junípero Serra in California. A stroll around the mellow parish church leads you through a garden courtyard and a small museum, past statues of saints, centuries-old religious paintings and unusual wooden bell
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Market Square Park
You’ll notice how the 19th-century buildings on Market Sq, the historical center of Downtown, sharply contrast with their modern surroundings. A few restaurants line the square and theres a cafe in the park. In summer the small green space plays host to concerts and outdoor movies.
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