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Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
The Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park welcomes visitors to learn about Johnson’s life from beginning to end. The park includes the Johnson birthplace, childhood home, the ranch, and even the family cemetery where LBJ and Lady Bird are both buried.
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Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park
Northwest of town, this state park is a great place to see and learn about reptiles and roadrunners, wolves and antelopes, along with desert plants like agave, ocotillo and yucca. A good 1.3-mile trail showcases different habitats of the Chihuahuan Desert.
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Olympic Legacy Cauldron Park
The University of Utah, or U of U, was the site of the Olympic Village in 2002. This small, on-site park has giant panels detailing the games and also contains the torch. A 10-minute, dramatic but heartfelt film booms with artificial fog and sound effects.
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Nevada Museum of Art
In a sparkling building inspired by the geological formations of the Black Rock Desert north of town, a floating staircase leads to galleries showcasing temporary exhibits and eclectic collections on the American West, labor and contemporary landscape photography.
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Miami
Though the college itself isn’t very exciting, there are two art galleries with rotating exhibitions at the Wolfson Campus of the Miami-Dade Community College. Both the 3rd-floor Centre Gallery and 5th-floor Frances Wolfson Gallery often have photography shows.
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Mirós Chicago
Joan Miró’s work The Sun, the Moon and One Star, known now as Miró’s Chicago, sits across the street from Daley Plaza. Miró hoped to evoke the ‘mystical force of a great earth mother’ with the 40ft sculpture, made of various metals, cement and tile in 1981.
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Grimes Point Archaeological Area
The Churchill County Museum & Archives sponsors twice-monthly guided tours ($1) of Hidden Cave. The cave is near Grimes Point Archaeological Area, about 10 miles east of Fallon, where a marked trail leads past boulders covered by Native American petroglyphs.
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Grand Portage National Monument
Located beside the Canadian border, this is where the early voyageurs had to carry their canoes around the Pigeon River rapids. It was the center of a far-flung trading empire, and the reconstructed 1788 trading post and Ojibwe village is well worth seeing.
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Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau
The Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau distributes a comprehensive list of town attractions, which include the Eisenhower National Historic Site , which is Ikes former home, and the house that served as General Lees Headquarters , now a museum.
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Gaslamp Museum & William Heath Davis House
This house, a pre-fab affair brought from Maine in 1850, contains a small museum with 19th-century furnishings. From here, the Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation leads a weekly, two-hour walking tour of the neighborhood, which includes admission to the house.
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DL Bliss State Park
DL Bliss State Park has the western shores nicest beaches at Lester Cove and Calawee Cove. A short nature trail leads to the Balancing Rock, a giant chunk of granite perched on a rocky pedestal. Pick up information from the visitor center by the park entrance.
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Dar Al Islam Mosque
Muslims worship at this adobe mosque that welcomes visitors. From Hwy 84, take Hwy 554 (southeast of Abiquiú) towards El Rito, cross the Rio Chama, take your first left on to County Rd 155 and follow it for 3 miles. The mosque is up a dirt road on the right.
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Centennial Park
Connected by footbridge to the Whitewater Kayak & Recreation Park, this place is called duck park by locals, thanks to the numerous webfooted residents. Theres a great wide lawn, outdoor grills and picnic tables. Its a perfect place for a family picnic.
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Childrens Museum of South Carolina
Afraid your tot is being dumbed-down by too much cotton candy and miniature golf? This museum can help. Created for kids from 1 to 11, it has lots of interactive displays, including a doctors examining room, a dentists office, a science lab and a kiddie ATM.
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Children’s Discovery Museum
Downtown, this science and creativity museum has hands-on displays incorporating art, technology and the environment, with plenty of toys, and very cool play-and-learn areas. The museum is on Woz Way, which is named after Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple.
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CBS Television City
This tech-forward attraction features a video wall, logo souvenir shop and several futuristic theaters where viewers screen TV pilot episodes for market research, sometimes donning 3D eyewear. Children must be at least 10 years old to attend most screenings.
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Brookgreen Gardens
These magical gardens, 16 miles south of town on Hwy 17S, are home to the largest collection of American sculpture in the country, set amid more than 9000 acres of rice plantation turned subtropical garden paradise. Seasonal blooms are listed on the website.
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Blenheim Vineyards
Blenheim is owned by Dave Matthews, who in some ways – what with his folkie-preppie vibe and eternal gap-year sunniness, and the fact that he owns a vineyard – is the Platonic ideal of a UVA student. The wines are great and the setting is sheer buciolic joy.
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Banning Residence Museum
Built in 1864, the original home of Phineas Banning, father of the LA Harbor, is stacked with a trove of gorgeous antiques and set in a rugged yet bland south LA suburb. It offers an intriguing glimpse into the daily lives of well-heeled 19th-century Angelenos.
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Ashfall Fossil Beds
Watch paleontologists work at Ashfall Fossil Beds , 8 miles northwest of town. You can see unearthed prehistoric skeletons of hundreds of animals, including rhinoceroses, buried 12 million years ago by ash from a Pompeii-like explosion in what is now Idaho.
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