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Casa Rondeña
This winery in the Los Ranchos area of the North Valley often serves as a wedding venue. At any other time, you can drop in for a $5 wine tasting, and they also offer tours during the areas summer Lavender Festival.
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Capitol Reflecting Pool
At the base of Capitol Hill, this pool echoes the larger, rectangular Reflecting Pool by the Lincoln Memorial at the other end of the Mall. The Capitol pool actually caps the I-39 freeway, which dips under the Mall here.
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Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
This family-friendly museum offers exhibits on the Capes flora and fauna and has a fine boardwalk trail across a salt marsh to a remote beach. The museum also sponsors naturalist-led walks, talks and kids programs.
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Big Boy Steam Engine
Inside pretty Holliday Park youll find the worlds largest steam engine – old number 4004, now retired. The locomotive made its name pulling 3600-ton trains across about a million miles of steep mountain terrain.
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Athenaeum
Housed in a graceful Spanish renaissance structure, this space is devoted exclusively to art and music. Its reading room is a lovely place to relax and read, and it hosts a series of concerts from chamber music to jazz.
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African American Museum
This museum has exhibits of more than 1000 objects that richly detail the art and history of African American people from precolonial Africa through the present. Its folk-art collection is one of the best nationwide.
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2400º Fahrenheit
Drop by to watch Michael and Misato Mortara blow hot glass into mind-boggling bowls and vases. A tiny gallery displays their finished masterpieces (dont ask how much). Its off Hwy 11 at the villages eastern end.
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Gordon House
Next to the Oregon Garden is Gordon House, the only building in Oregon designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built in 1964 and moved to its present location in 2002. Call ahead for tours as opening hours/days vary.
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Gilgal Garden
Talk about obscure: Gilgal Garden is a quirky little green space hidden in a residential neighborhood. Most notably, this tiny sculpture garden contains a giant stone sphinx wearing Mormon founder Joseph Smiths face.
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Cherry Springs State Park
Considered one of the best places for stargazing east of the Mississippi, this mountaintop state park has plenty of space for campers, who book well ahead in July and August, when the Milky Way is almost directly overhead.
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Fremont Indian State Park & Museum
Fremont Indian State Park & Museum contains more than 500 panels of Fremont Indian rock art on 12 interpretive trails, one of the largest collections in the state. There’s also a partially excavated Fremont village.
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Fernbank Museum of Natural History
There are better natural history museums, but Fernbank is especially kid-friendly with its new Naturequest exhibit. The museum covers the natural world from seashells to giant lizards, and it has an IMAX theater .
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Fabbioli Cellars
This eco-friendly winery provides an intimate but informal tasting experience, where you can learn about the wines from innovative winemaker Doug Fabbioli himself. It’s open outside its regular hours by appointment.
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El Paso Holocaust Museum
It may seem a little anachronistic in a predominately Hispanic town, but the Holocaust Museum is as much a surprise inside as out for its thoughtful and moving exhibits that are imaginatively presented for maximum impact.
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Coos Historical & Maritime Museum
In North Bend, just south of the McCullough Bridge, this museum displays exhibits from Native American culture to maritime shipwrecks. Stay tuned: Its due to move into new quarters on Coos Bays waterfront in mid-2014.
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Court of Two Lions
At the corner of Royal and Toulouse Sts stand a pair of houses built in the 1790s. The corner house, the Court of Two Lions , has a well-known gate on the Toulouse St side, flanked by marble lions atop the entry posts.
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Mary Washington House
At the 18th-century home of George Washingtons mother, knowledgeable tour guides in period costume shed light on Mary and what life was like in her time. The lovely garden is an excellent recreation from the era.
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New Sands Casino
Built on the site of the former Bethlehem Steel factory, which produced materials for the George Washington Bridge, Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center, the building takes design cues from its utilitarian past.
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National Voting Rights Museum
Selmas key attraction, the National Voting Rights Museum , near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is an important stop as it honors the Civil Rights movements foot soldiers – the unsung heroes who marched for freedom.
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Manhattan Beach Open
Every August thousands of bad-ass babes take to the sand during the world’s oldest and most prestigious volleyball tournament (played since 1960). Hit the beach courts near Marine Ave to see the players practice year-round.
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