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Boise Art Museum
Inside 90-acre Julia Davis Park, this art museum displays contemporary art in all media, including touring exhibitions by some big names (Kara Walker, Nick Cave). On First Thursdays each month, admission is by donation and the museum stays open until 8pm.
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Boca Raton Museum of Art
In Mizner Park, this elegant museum showcases the minor works of modern masters such as Picasso, Chagall and Modigliani. It also has a genuinely worthwhile collection of pieces by 20th- and 21st-century American and European painters, sculptors and photographers.
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Blake Island State Park
An easy way to get from Seattle onto the island is with Tillicum Village Tours . The four-hour visit to Blake Island, the birthplace of Seattles namesake Chief Sealth, includes a salmon bake, a native dance and a movie at an old Duwamish Native American village.
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Bishops Palace
Built between 1886 and 1893, this ornate stone mansion has hidden back stairs and other fun features. Self-guided audio tours explain the homes history. Docent-led tours depart daily at 12:30pm and 3:30pm. Discount coupons and tickets are widely available.
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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
The site of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, on Max Yasgurs farm outside Bethel, is 70 miles from the town of Woodstock. Its now home to an amphitheater with great summer concerts and an evocative museum dedicated to the hippie movement and the 1960s.
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BCA Center
Under the auspices of Burlington City Arts, the BCA Center is an exciting locus for art exhibits, classes and discussions. Ongoing open studios involve the community with an artist in residence. A community darkroom has open-studio hours, classes and discussions.
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A Mountain
For cool metro and mountain views, huff it up for half a mile to the top of A Mountain, so-called because of the giant letter A painted there by ASU students, but officially known as Tempe Butte or Hayden Butte. The trailhead is on E 3rd St, near Mill Ave.
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Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and perched on the shore of Lake Osceola, this small yellow villa was home to Czech sculptor Albin Polasek. The house serves as a small museum of his life and work, and the gardens house some of his sculptures.
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace is a faux Greek temple constructed around an old log cabin. Ten minutes away is Honest Abes boyhood home at Knob Creek, with access to hiking trails, though the latter is closed through 2015 due to construction in the area.
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World Birding Center
Birders flock to the Valleys parks associated with the World Birding Center . Migrating avian masses, including thousands of hawks, pass through this natural corridor along the main North-South American fly route from March to April and September to October.
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Wentworth Gardner House
This 1760 structure is one of the finest Georgian houses in the US. Elizabeth and Mark Hunking Wentworth were among Portsmouths wealthiest and most prominent citizens, so no expense was spared in building this home, which was a wedding gift for their son.
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Talbot Islands State Parks
Talbot Islands State Parks , includes the pristine shoreline at Little Talbot Island and the boneyard beach at Big Talbot Island State Park , where silvered tree skeletons create a dramatic landscape. Both are south of Amelia Island down the First Coast Hwy.
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St Pius Church
The Poles had St Adalbert’s; the Irish had St Pius, a Romanesque revival edifice built between 1885 and 1892. Its smooth masonry contrasts with the rough stones of its contemporaries. A mural of parishioners eating corn while Jesus looks on graces the exterior.
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Uss Monitor Center
TheUSS Monitor Center houses the dredged carcass of the Monitor, one of the worlds first ironclad warships, as well as a life-size replica of the real deal (which can be seen undergoing a long chemical bath, a single step in a lengthy preservation process).
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USS Alabama
USS Alabama is a 690ft behemoth famous for escaping nine major WWII battles unscathed. Its a worthwhile self-guided tour for its awesome size and might. While there, you can also tour a submarine and get up close and personal with military aircraft. Parkings $2.
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Laguna Gloria
Check out the Austin Museum of Art’s original home at Laguna Gloria out on Lake Austin. The Italianate villa built in 1916 was the former home of Texas legend Clara Driscoll and still serves as a rotating exhibition space, plus the grounds are nice for a wander.
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Klyde Warren Park
New in 2013, this innovative 5.2-acre park is an urban green space built over the recessed Woodall Rodgers Freeway. It has its own programming and, besides outdoor areas for chess, yoga and other activities, it offers performances, book signings and more.
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Presidential Archives & Leadership Library
This much-lauded museum has had fiscal problems and periodically shuts down. However, when open it has an interesting collection of items and info on all the presidents. Out back is the very modest 1948 home of the Bush family, which was moved here and restored.
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Peary
This small campus museum holds memorabilia from the expeditions of Robert Peary and Donald MacMillan, Bowdoin alumni who were among the first explorers to reach the North Pole. Particularly notable are MacMillans massive collection of B&W Arctic photos.
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Pittock Mansion
This grand and beautiful 1914 mansion was built by pioneer-entrepreneur Henry Pittock, who revitalized the Oregonian newspaper. Guided tours are available, but its worth visiting the (free) grounds simply to have a picnic while taking in the spectacular views.
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