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Veterans Memorial Park & Beach
This small park has covered picnic tables and good access to the mudflat and mangrove habitat that makes up most of the Keys’ coastline. The views onto the ocean are pristine.
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Tillamook Naval Air Museum
Aircraft lovers shouldnt miss the large collection of fighter planes and the 7-acre blimp hangar. Its 2 miles south of town; there are plans to move the planes to Madras in 2016.
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Sol Koffler
RISD maintains several fine galleries. Sol Koffler serves as the main exhibition space for graduate students, where you can see work in a range of media. Hours vary on the weekend.
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Snake River Overlook
Good panoramas of the Tetons and opportunities for wildlife-watching, though forest growth means the photo ops arent quite as good as when Ansel Adams immortalized the shot.
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Yellowstone Trading Post
Kids will like the stuffed animal exhibits in this souvenir store next to the Beartooth Café. It’s normally free; if not, the small admission fee can be spent in the store.
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Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park was once the home of Bill Cody, the father of rodeo and the famed Wild West Show, its now a fun museum that reflects his colorful life.
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Luxembourg Embassy
Congressman Alexander Stewart built the home in 1909 in the grand court style of Louis XIV. In 1941 the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg bought it and lived here in exile during WWII.
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MOCA Pacific Design Center
Standing a bit forlorn amid the glassy behemoths is the small satellite branch of Downtown’s Museum of Contemporary Art . Exhibits usually have an architectural or design theme.
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Mast of the Battleship USS Maine
One of the most striking monuments in Arlington is the long main mast of the USS Maine . Over 200 US sailors died when it was sunk by explosion in 1898 off the coast of Cuba.
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Pahoa Farmers Market
Mall This shopping mall has a grocery store, hardware store and fresh-fish mongerthe (fish and chips here are five star). Just off the main highway, north of historic downtown.
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Oxbow Bend Overlook
A scenic river bend populated with moose, elk, sandhill cranes, ospreys, bald eagles, trumpeter swans, Canada geese, blue herons, white pelicans and…oh, yeah, abundant mosquitoes.
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Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum/Burkle Estate
This unimposing clapboard house is thought to have been a way station for runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, complete with trapdoors, cellar entry and cubby-holes.
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National Automotive and Truck Museum
This museum has a bit of everything, from toy cars to gas pumps to vintage rigs. Car buffs will appreciate that it sits next door to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg auto museum.
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Greater Astoria Historical Society
Get a glimpse of old-time Astoria at this labor-of-love community space. Theres always some exhibit of neighborhood ephemera, and the group hosts lectures and films as well.
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Elfreths Alley Museum
Be sure to stop into Elfreths Alley Museum which was built in 1755 by blacksmith and alley namesake Jeremiah Elfreth; its been restored and furnished to its 1790 appearance.
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Dawn Traina Gallery
Traditional Hawaiian themes come to life in many different media, including oil paintings, limited-edition giclées and scratchboards (hard-panel carving reminiscent of scrimshaw).
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Foamhenge
Here youll find a marvelous full-sized replica of Stonehenge made entirely of Styrofoam. There are fine views – and even an on-site wizard. Its a mile north of Natural Bridge.
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Human Rights Campaign Action Center
Harvey Milk’s former camera storefront is now home to the civil rights advocacy group, where supporters converge to sign petitions and score ‘Equality’ tees by Marc Jacobs.
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Hot Springs Mountain Tower
On top of Hot Springs Mountain, the 216ft tower has spectacular views of the surrounding mountains covered with dogwood, hickory, oak and pine – lovely in the spring and fall.
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Hogle Zoo
Asian Highlands, combining big cat habitats with architecture of the East, is the newest exhibit at Hogle Zoo . Kids still love the petting zoo and miniature-train rides ($1).
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