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Olmstead Place State Park Heritage Area
Four-and-a-half miles southeast of Ellensburg off I-90, the historical theme continues with log cabins, pioneer barns and other farm buildings dating from 1875 to 1890. They depict early homestead life in the Kittitas Valley.
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Kidron Auction
If its Thursday, follow the buggy line-up down the road from Lehmans store to the livestock barn. Hay gets auctioned at 10:15am, cows at 11am and pigs at 1pm. A flea market rings the barn for folks seeking non-mooing merchandise.
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Kentucky Science Center
Set in a historic building on Main St there are three floors of exhibits that illuminate biology, physiology, physics, computing and more for families (kids love it). For an extra $8 to $10 you can catch a film in the IMAX theater.
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Kathleen Ewing Gallery
Photography is the focus at this gallery, which is renowned for its collection of 19th- and 20th-century photos. It also offers more contemporary pictures and multimedia works. Openings are held the first Friday of the month.
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Mendocino Headlands State Park
Mendocino Headlands State Park surrounds the village, where trails crisscross bluffs and rocky coves. Ask at the Ford House visitor center about guided weekend walks, including spring wildflower walks and whale-watching jaunts.
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Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will satisfy the cultural anthropologist in you, so make a bee-line for permanent exhibits on people of the southwest and on ancestors, but do check out traveling exhibits and activities for children.
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North End Park
Reached as soon as you cross the bridge, the small park is laced with forested trails that converge at a stairway to the shoreline. At low tide you can search the tidepools here for starfish, sea anemones and other marine life.
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Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge
Five miles southeast of Las Vegas via Hwys 104 and 281, this 14-sq-mile refuge has marshes, woodlands and grasslands to which upwards of 250 bird species have found their way. Visitors can follow a 7-mile drive and walking trails.
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Softball & Baseball Fields
The downtown softball and baseball fields are often the most active spot on the island. For some local flavor, go down there and cheer on the Molokaʻi Farmers as they compete against their high-school rivals, the Lanaʻi Pinelads.
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Studio West Photography
Las Vegas’ fractured art scene received an enormous boost in 1997 when commercial photographer Wes Isbutt accidentally created the Arts Factory complex. Isbutt was looking for a place to set up his business, Studio West Photography .
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Straw Corner Shops
Stowe has no shortage of galleries and fine craft shops with artists of local and international renown. Within the Straw Corner Shops offerings are surreal, traditional, contemplative, sometimes prankish and always finely hewn.
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St Nicholas Church
The fabulous <strong>St Nicholas Church</strong> is a Greek Orthodox beauty built with 60 tons of Greek marble and featuring Czech stained glass. It is the focal point of the annual Epiphany Day celebration on January 6.
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Sterne
The Sterne-Hoya House, built in 1828, is a good example of a refined town house of the era, and was the site of Sam Houstons baptism (sites visited by Sam Houston are the Texas equivalent of George Washington slept here).
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Powel House
The 18th-century Georgian brick mansion was home to Samuel Powel, a mayor of Philadelphia in the colonial era. Its interior is a simulacrum – the original was stripped away decades ago and installed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Puamana Beach Park
This shady beach park, 1.5 miles south of Lahaina, is rocky but sometimes has good conditions for beginner surfers – otherwise it’s mostly a quick stop for a seaside view, particularly at sunset. Not a great spot for lying out.
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Rockport Harbor
Crescent-shaped Rockport Harbor is one of the prettiest on the Gulf Coast. Its lined with all manner of boats (shrimp, fishing charter, tour and pleasure craft) and a series of rustic peel-and-eat shrimp joints and bait shops.
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Rhyolite
Four miles west of Beatty, NV, Rhyolite ghost town recounts the hurly-burly, boom-and-bust story of so many Western gold-rush mining towns. Dont overlook the 1906 bottle house or the skeletal remains of a three-story bank.
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Hot Springs National Park
Hot Springs National Park is a tiny preserve, has thermal waters in and around that spout a million gallons of 143°F (62°C) water daily from 47 natural springs, and attract modern-day pilgrims that bathe in or sip its waters.
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Johnson Building
The Johnson Building was erected in 1881 and traded as a restaurant from 1901, originally as the Royal Cafe and later as the Johnston Restaurant until 1985. Its now a gallery and antique store downstairs, with offices upstairs.
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Water Giver Statue
Fronting the Honolulu Convention Center, this magnificent statue symbolically acknowledges the Hawaiian people for their generosity and expressions of goodwill to newcomers. Sister-statue is the Storyteller Statue in Waikiki.
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