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Nutcracker Museum
As much a gift shop as a place to peruse, the Nutcracker Museum specializes, as youd guess, in an exceptional variety (around 5000 at last count) of nutcracker dolls. Ebony, metal, boxwood, ivory and porcelain – who knew cracking nuts could be so much fun?
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Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
The shiny building impresses, with four stories of geometric black steel, though theres not a lot to see inside. Floors 2 and 4 have the galleries; exhibits focus on an artist or two and change often. Call for an audio tour of the architecture and installations.
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Lord & Taylor Building
On the southwestern corner of Broadway and E 20th St stands the old Lord & Taylor Building, former home of the famous Midtown department store. A Gothic-inspired creation, it stands in an area formerly nicknamed ‘Ladies’ Mile’ for its once-abundant emporiums.
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Los Alamos Historical Museum
Housed in a former school building, this interesting museum displays pop-culture artifacts from the atomic age and details the everyday social history of life on the hill during the secret project. Pick up one of the self-guided downtown walking-tour pamphlets.
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Landis Valley Museum
Based on an 18th-century village, this open-air museum is the best way to get an overview of the early PA Dutch culture and Mennonites in particular. Costumed staff are on hand to demonstrate tinsmithing, for instance, and theres a beautiful crafts exhibit.
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King Center for Non
Across from the National Historic Site visitor center, this place has more information on Kings life and work and a few of his personal effects, including his Nobel Peace Prize. His gravesite is surrounded by a long reflecting pool and can be viewed any time.
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Marina Jack
Sarasotas plush deep-water marina is within walking distance of downtown and is well served with alfresco and fine-dining restaurants, and numerous sight-seeing cruises and private charters. Head here for boat rentals, water sports, sailing and fishing charters.
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Yearling
This wonderful sculpture by Donald Lipski sits outside the Denver Public Library, where it was installed in 1998 after spending a year in New York City’s Central Park. The Horse on the Chair, as it’s known, stands 21ft high and has a whimsy, humor and magic to it.
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Washington DC Jewish Community Center
The Washington DC Jewish Community Center hosts plenty of arts activities, interfaith dialogues, community action programs and the like. The community center’s sleek, boxlike headquarters is a treat in itself, resembling the exterior of a modern art museum.
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Wagner Park
A patch of green just off the Mill St mall, edged with cedars and a couple of shimmering aspens, and views of the Red and Aspen mountains. Football goals (both types) are set up, theres a playground area for little ones and plenty of space for a game of frisbee.
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Rodrigue Studio
Cajun artist George Rodrigue’s gallery is the place to go to see examples of his unbelievably popular ‘Blue Dog’ paintings. He just keeps painting and painting that darn dog. Look for topical works, in which the dog quietly comments on post-Katrina issues.
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Quandary Antiques Cabin & Ceramic Studio
Part of the Breckenridge Arts District, this small ceramics studio is set in an old log cabin. Its open to the public three days a week. Out front are a gathering of excellent lodgpole, multi-media totems created by artist Harriet Hoffman and her students.
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Venetian
The Venetians regal 120,000-sq-ft casino has marble floors, hand-painted ceiling frescoes and 120 table games, including a high-limit lounge and an elegant no-smoking poker room, where women are especially welcome (unlike at many other poker rooms in town).
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USS Potomac
Franklin D Roosevelt’s ‘floating White House,’ the 165ft USS Potomac , is moored at Clay and Water Sts by the ferry dock, and is open for dockside tours. Two-hour history cruises (adult/child $55/35) are also held several times a month from May through October.
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Smith College Museum of Art
This impressive campus museum boasts a 25,000-piece collection. Its particularly strong in 17th-century Dutch and 19th- and 20th-century European and North American paintings, including works by Degas, Winslow Homer, Picasso and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
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Sundance Square
You can stroll yourself happy in the 14-block Sundance Square, near Main and 3rd Sts. Colorful architecture, art galleries and a host of bars and restaurants make this one ’hood not to miss. The big, spurting fountain and cafe tables are fine spots to cool off.
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Myrtles Plantation
Supposedly haunted, this plantation house has night mystery tours (by reservation) on weekends. We heard secondhand corroboration of the supernatural presence, so it might be fun to stay overnight in the B&B (rooms from $115) to commune with the other world.
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Olowalu Beach
The coral reef of Olowalu Beach, which is popular with snorkelers, is shallow and silty, and the ‘Sharks may be present’ signs lining the beach are the real thing. There were three shark attacks off Olowalu between 1993 and 2002. Located at the 14-mile marker.
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Pilgrim Baptist Church
Gospel music got its start at Pilgrim Baptist Church, originally built as a synagogue from 1890 to 1891. Unfortunately, the opulent structure burned to the ground (barring these few exterior walls) in 2006 when a roof repairman lost control of his blowtorch.
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Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery
More than 300 people are buried at Grand Canyon Cemetery; the lives of many of them are intricately woven into the history of the canyon. They include the Kolb brothers, John Verkamp, Ralph Cameron and John Hance, who ran a hotel a few miles from Grandview Point.
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