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Louisa Boren Lookout
Outside the Volunteer Park boundaries, the Louisa Boren Lookout provides one of the best views over the university and Union Bay. The small park is named after the longest-surviving member of the party that founded Seattle in 1851.
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Leadville Heritage Museum
This middling museum includes an art gallery, Victorian artifacts from the late 19th century, a 10th Mountain Division display, dioramas explaining early mining history, and our favorite piece: that rusted mining car right out front.
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Museum of Ventura County
This tiny downtown museum has a mishmash of displays including Chumash baskets, vintage wooden surfboards and a massive stuffed California condor with wings outspread. Temporary exhibits usually spotlight local history and art.
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King Ranch Museum
Housed in a renovated ice-storage house downtown, the King Ranch Museum covers the history of the ranch. Be sure to follow the minor family dramas of the first generation, they are like a movie (foreman marries Kings daughter etc).
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Moab Museum of Film & Western Heritage
Head out to the Moab Museum of Film & Western Heritage, based at Red Cliffs Adventure Lodge, 15 miles north of town, to see Hollywood memorabilia from films shot locally; there are also historical displays on area ranches.
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Gualala Arts Center
Inland along Old State Rd, at the south end of town and beautifully built entirely by volunteers, this center hosts changing exhibitions, organizes the Art in the Redwoods Festival in late August and has loads of info on local art.
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Greektown
Busy Greektown has restaurants, bakeries and a casino. Early each day, the large halls at the Eastern Market fill with a melting pot of bartering shoppers and vendors. Specialty shops, delis and restaurants surround the site.
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Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts
For a town the size of Glenwood Springs, this is a surprisingly vibrant arts center, hosting dance and music performances, gallery shows of local artists and lots of classes. In the summer, they also stage an outdoor music series.
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Giant Forest
We dare you to try hugging the trees in this 3-sq-mile grove protecting the park’s most gargantuan specimens. The world’s biggest is the General Sherman Tree . Lose the crowds by venturing onto any of the many forested trails.
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Female Union Band Cemetery
Part of the larger Mt Zion Cemetery, the Female Union Band Cemetery contains the crumbling, overgrown headstones of many free black residents. Look for the road leading into the graveyard just west of the building at 2531 Q St NW.
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Estero Bluffs State Park
Ramble along coastal grasslands and pocket beaches at this small state park, accessed from unmarked roadside pulloffs north of Cayucos. Look among the scenic sea stacks to spot harbor seals hauled out on tide-splashed rocks.
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Blue Goose Steam Excursion Train
This train hisses and chugs along a 100-year-old track. The schedule is sporadic; look at the website for current information. It’s one of the last remaining railroads of California’s quickly vanishing historic rail network.
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Barrio Histórico District/Barrio Viejo
This compact neighborhood was an important business district in the late 19th century. Today its home to funky shops and galleries in brightly painted adobe houses. The Barrio is bordered by I-10, Stone Ave and Cushing and 17th Sts.
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Astoria Column
Rising high on Coxcomb Hill, the Astoria Column (built in 1926) is a 125ft tower painted with scenes from the westward sweep of US exploration and settlement. The top of the column (up 164 steps) offers excellent views over the area.
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American Indian Cultural Center & Museum
This landmark center with its arresting design will be one of the premier Native American institutions in the world whenever its completed (possibly 2017). In the meantime, however, budget wrangles have slowed construction.
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Beer Can House
Is it a house, or is it a sculpture? More than 50,000 aluminum cans cover the beer can house as siding, as edging – as wind chimes. Taking a guided or self-guided tour is worthwhile; either way dont miss the video of the house in use.
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Bay Bluffs Park
Off Pensacola Scenic Bluffs Hwy, this beautiful park is a 32-acre oasis of wooden boardwalks that lead you along the side of the steep bluffs, through clutches of live oaks, pines, Florida rosemary and holly down to the empty beach below.
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Arrowood
Arrowoods hilltop tasting room has postcard-perfect valley views and a bourgeois vibe, fussy for Sonoma, but the excellent chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon merit the hype. Tasting fee refunded with two-bottle purchase. Bottles are $25 to $90.
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Pyrah’s Pioneer Peak Farm
South of Palmer, Pyrah’s Pioneer Peak Farm is the largest pick-your-own-vegetables place in the Mat-Su Valley, with would-be farmers in the fields from July to early October picking everything from peas and potatoes to carrots and cabbages.
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Prudential Building
Architecture buffs will have a field day here, starting at the Prudential Building . It was designed by Louis Sullivan in 1895 as the Guaranty Building, and used an innovative steel-frame construction to create the first modern skyscraper.
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