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New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum
The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum emphasizes WWII exhibits, but there are plenty of powerful ones documenting genocides worldwide – from close-to-home Acoma to all-too-familiar Armenia.
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Sun Point
This rocky, often windy promontory overlooks St Mary Lake and was the site of some of the park’s earliest and most luxurious chalets (now demolished). Trails link to Baring Falls and St Mary Falls.
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Stark Museum of Art
The Stark Museum of Art has collections focused on artworks depicting native wildlife such as birds, including works by John J Audubon. One gallery is devoted to craftworks by Native Americans.
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St Peter’s Square
Don’t leave Gloucester without paying your respects at St Peters Sq, where Leonard Craske’s famous statue, Gloucester Fisherman is dedicated to ‘They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships, 1623–1923.’
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Treasures of the Gulf Museum
Sunken treasure! Thats the focus of this fun museum which has artifacts from three Spanish galleons that went down nearby in 1554. It does a good job of telling the stories of the hapless crews.
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Tracy Aviary
The Tracy Aviary , located in the southwest corner of Liberty Park, delights bird-lovers with winged creatures from all over the world. Kids can feed pelicans and mohawk-sportin guira cuckoos.
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Monument Creek Vista
From here, the bicycle- and wheelchair-friendly Greenway Trail west overlaps with the Rim Trail, offering multiple informal overviews and resting areas along its 2.8 route west to Hermits Rest.
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Powell Point
The rocky peninsula cuts out over the canyon, offering some of the South Rims most dramatic vistas. Similar to Hopi Point but not as crowded, Powell makes a magnificent spot to catch the sunset.
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John Wesley Powell River History Museum
Learn about John Wesley Powells amazing travels at this comprehensive museum, with a 20-minute film based on his diaries. It has good exhibits on the Fremont Indians, geology and local history.
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JetBlue Park
Forget daylight savings – residents of Fort Myers measure the seasons by the beginning and end of baseball spring training. Red Sox fans literally camp for spring training tickets to JetBlue Park.
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Great Cats World Park
For something completely different, check out this park 1.5 miles south of Cave Junction. This zoo/interactive big cat preserve proves cats are trainable – even if theyre big enough to eat your head.
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Germain
Makes some of the world’s best brandy, which is handcrafted by a fifth-generation brandy-maker from the Cognac region of France. It’s by appointment only, but if you’re into cognac, you gotta come.
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Gibson Beale Street Showcase
Take the fascinating 45-minute tours, which vary throughout the day by worker presence and noise level, of this enormous place to see master craftspeople transform solid blocks of wood into Les Pauls.
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Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge
You certainly dont expect to find a southern-style swampland, complete with moss-draped cypress trees and croaking bullfrogs in Illinois. But its here, at Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge.
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Hopi Point
Juts further into the canyon than any other South Rim overlook, offering magnificent east-west views. During the summer peak, there can be more than 1000 people waiting for shuttle pick-up after sunset.
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Healdsburg Veterans Memorial Beach
You can swim at this in-town beach – lifeguards are on duty summer weekends – but if you’re squeamish, confirm current water quality online (www.sonoma-county.org/health/services/freshwater.asp).
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Hau Hau Market
Hau Hau is a modern and bustling Chinese and Vietnamese food market where you can get cheap produce, specialty meats such as pigs ears and chickens feet, fireworks, and Asian gifts and knickknacks.
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Elitch Gardens
If you’re finding all the museums a bit too serious, loosen up at this amusement park – your kids will love you for it. Theres a water park, roller coasters and more. Go online to save on admission.
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Corolla Wild Horse Fund Museum
This small non-profit museum spotlights the wild mustangs that inhabit the dunes and shoreline north of Corolla. Also runs two-hour tours to see the horses (adult/child under 13 years $45/20.
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Cedar Key Historical Society Museum
This small museum packs a punch with its wonderful exhibits of Native American, Civil War and seafood-industry artifacts, and especially for its extensive collection of Cedar Key historic photographs.
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