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Madrid Old Coal Town Museum
A gleeful and exhaustive celebration of every last detail of mining-town life, holding everything from hospital equipment to old shop fittings, an impressive array of old digging and tunneling equipment and even a steam locomotive.
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Lake Leatherwood City Park
This expansive park includes 21 miles of hiking and biking trails that crisscross the forested mountains and surround an 85-acre lake. Located about 3.5 miles from downtown, this is the closest managed wild space to Eureka Springs.
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Lakeside Amusement Park
This old-school fun park has rides for adrenaline junkies as well as tots and toddlers. It’s in a great lakeside location with views west over the mountain – although you might not notice as you free fall from the 140ft-drop tower!
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Witch Trials Memorial
The most poignant site in Salem is the Witch Trials Memorial , a quiet park behind the Peabody Essex Museum, where simple stones are inscribed with the names and final words of the victims, decrying the injustice befallen them.
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Waipoʻo Falls
This 800ft waterscape can be seen from a couple of small unmarked lookouts before mile marker 12 and then from a lookout opposite the picnic area shortly before mile marker 13. The picnic area has restrooms and drinking water.
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Zoo Atlanta
The Zoo Atlanta , which features flamingos, elephants, kangaroos and the odd tiger. But the zoos pride and joy are the giant pandas. They tend to have cubs that slaughter you with cuteness. Be prepared to wait to see the cubs.
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Wax Museum at Niagara
Not the most state-of-the-art museum, but huge, entertaining and packed with interesting stories: massacres, stunt-jumpers and that time the water stopped flowing. Pose for a photo in an actual barrel someone rode over the falls.
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Pu’u Hinahina Lookout
A majestic canyon lookout (elevation 3640ft) showing the river glistening in the distance and giving panoramic views down to the ocean. There are two lookouts near the parking lot at a marked turnoff between mile markers 13 and 14.
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San Felipe de Neri Church
Dating in its present incarnation from 1793, the façade of this adobe church now provides Old Towns most famous photo op. Mass is celebrated Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 7am, with Sunday Mass at 7am, 10:15am and noon.
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Roswell Hotel
The top floor was used by quack Dr James Brinkly in the 1930s as a surgery where he used goat glands as an early form of Viagra on men with too much money and not enough sense. The docs mansion still stands at 512 Qualia Dr.
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National Museum of Civil War Medicine
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine gives a fascinating, and sometimes gruesome, look at the health conditions soldiers and doctors faced during the war, as well as important medical advances that resulted from the conflict.
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Tablas Creek Vineyard
Breathe easy at this organic estate vineyard reached via a pretty winding drive up into the hills. Known for Rhône varietals, the signature blends also rate highly. Free tours at 10:30am and 2pm daily (reservations advised).
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Mission of Nombre de Dios
Just north of downtown on the A1A, the mission dates back to the earliest days of Spanish settlement. Today, the peaceful memorial gardens feature a replica of the original altar, a tiny ivy-shrouded chapel and a small museum.
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Mill Mountain Park
Mill Mountain Park has walking trails, a discovery center, a zoo and grand views of Roanoke. You can drive up (via Walnut Ave SE) or hike up (take the Monument trail just off Sylvan Ave SE or the Star Trail near Riverland Rd SE)
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Museum of South Texas History
Just 7 miles north of McAllen in Edinburg, the Museum of South Texas History covers cross-border history from the Ice Age when mammoths roamed the area to the 19th century when soldiers and settlers fought for the regions future.
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Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education
The modern Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education has an 8,000 gallon aquarium and a life-size marsh diorama with a duck blind. Do;t miss the 20-minute film about area history. Offers lots of kids classes and activities.
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Poconos
Occupying the northeast corner of Pennsylvania is the famed Poconos region, containing 2400 sq miles of mountains, streams, waterfalls, lakes and forests, making it a beautifully natural getaway at any time during the four seasons.
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Pico House
South of Old Plaza are more historic buildings, including the 1870 home of Pio Pico, California’s last Mexican governor, the city’s first three-story building, and later a glamorous hotel with 21 parlors and two interior courtyards.
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Kealakomo
About halfway along Chain of Craters Road is this coastal lookout (elevation 2000ft), with picnic tables and commanding views. Below Kealakomo, the road descends in long, sweeping switchbacks, some cut deeply through lava flows.
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Harrison Museum of African American Culture
The site of the Harrison Museum of African American Culture , was the first public high school for African Americans in America, and has displays on local African American culture and traditional and contemporary African art.
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