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Glen Echo Park
This beautiful park 9 miles northwest of downtown has a huge carousel (per ride $1.25, operating May through September) and children’s shows by the Puppet Company and Adventure Theatre MTC .
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Drumheller Fountain
Drumheller Fountain sits inside what was originally known as Geyser Basin (now ‘Frosh Pond’), one of the few remaining pieces leftover from the 1909 expo that beefed up the university.
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William Paca House & Garden
Take a tour (offered hourly on the half-hour) through this Georgian mansion for insight into 18th-century life for the upper class in Maryland. Dont miss the blooming garden in spring.
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Turnbull Studios & Sculpture Garden
Here you can view Bruce Turnbull’s ambitious bronze and wood creations, peer into a working studio and wander through a small gallery selling an attractive collection of work by area artists.
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Wailuku Public Library
Designed by Maui-born architect CW Dickey and completed in 1928, the building displays a now-distinctive regional design. Note Dickeys signature element – the double-pitched hip roof.
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Worlds Largest Rubber Stamp
The kitschy Free stamp sculpture by Claes Oldenburg is a photo op favorite. Food trucks congregate around it and there are live music performances on Friday afternoons May to October.
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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
A shrine to the author of Gone With the Wind . Mitchell wrote her epic in a small apartment in the basement of this historic house, though nothing inside it actually belonged to her.
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Loudoun Museum
This museum in Leesburg narrates the history of northern Virginia from the first Native American settlements to the present day. You can also arrange walking tours of historic Leesburg here.
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Storm King Art Center
This 500-acre sculpture park, established in 1960, has works by Mark di Suvero, Andy Goldsworthy and others, all carefully placed in nooks formed by the land’s natural breaks and curves.
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Matanzas Pass Preserve
Trails wander behind a historic cottage exhibit into a small (60-acre) mangrove and oak hammock ecosystem alive with crabs, lizards and birdlife. Excellent kayak launches are onsite.
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Slots
For cheap booze, cheap eats and cheap thrills, its tough to beat this lowbrow dive. Grab a coupon book, give the giant slot machine a free spin, and scarf down a few $1 beers and hot dogs.
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Onomea Tea Company
This 9-acre tea plantation offers tea tastings and tours. Its a small-scale operation, allowing for friendly chatting about tea and its cultivation. Website reservations are required.
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Obamas House
Hefty security means you can’t get close to Obama’s house , but you can stand across the street on Hyde Park Blvd and try to glimpse over the barricades at the redbrick Georgian-style manor.
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K&B Plaza
K&B Plaza is a modish office tower dating to 1963 with an indoor-outdoor sculpture gallery. The outdoor sculptures, featuring Isamu Noguchi’s The Mississippi, can be viewed anytime.
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Duke Chapel
The towering, 1930s Duke Chapel overlooks Duke Universitys neo-Gothic west campus. This breathtaking place, with its 210ft tower and 77 colorful, bible-themed glass windows, is worth a look.
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Deschutes Historical Museum
Located in an old grade school, this museum houses Native American and pioneer artifacts. Theres also historical information of the areas logging, railroad and fur-trapping industries.
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Fort Pitt Museum
This museum tells the story of the French and Indian War of the mid-18th century, which brought Pittsburgh into being. The surrounding waterfront, a state park, is lovely on a summer day.
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Ingalls Homestead
Just outside De Smet and down a dirt road, the actual Ingalls Homestead has been much gussied up and includes all manner of attractions about 19th-century farm life and Laura herself.
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Iditarod Finish
This imposing structure, a distinctly bent pine tree with burls, is raised over Front St every March in anticipation of the mushers and their dogsled teams ending the 1049-mile race here.
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Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park
Near Caloosahatchee Regional Park, bobcats, water snakes and otters play in over 800 acres of protected forest and freshwater wetlands connected by extensive surface and boardwalk trails.
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