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Founders Library
The Founders’ Library is a handsome Georgian building with a gold spire and giant clock that serves as Howard University’s architectural centerpiece.
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Foxwoods Resort & Casino
Feeling lucky? In nearby Ledyard, the Mashantucket Pequot tribe operates this mega-splash casino, the largest gambling venue this side of Vegas.
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Fort Union Trading Post
On the Montana–North Dakota border, the evocative Fort Union Trading Post is a reconstruction of the American Fur Company post built in 1828.
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Five Civilized Tribes Museum
This museum is inside an 1875 Union Indian Agency house. It recalls the cultures of the Native Americans forcibly moved here from Americas southeast.
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Fire Museum
The kid-approved Fire Museum teaches fire safety and houses an Ahrens Fox steam pumper believed to have fought the city’s Great Fire of 1901.
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Eagle and High Peak Mine
Be regaled with tales of the hardscrabble life of the town’s early pioneers during an hour-long underground tour through these former gold mines.
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Old Mill
The Old Mill is America’s oldest working windmill (c 1746), as game young docents will demonstrate by grinding corn (weather conditions permitting).
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Johnson Victrola Museum
The Johnson Victrola Museum honors talking machine pioneer Eldridge Johnson, including an exhibit on the RCA Records trademark dog, Nipper.
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Nevada State Railroad Museum
Train buffs shouldnt miss the Nevada State Railroad Museum, which displays some 65 train cars and locomotives from the 1800s to the early 1900s.
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Nature Center of Cape May
Visit the 18-acre Nature Center of Cape May, which features open-air observation platforms with wonderful views of the expansive marshes and beaches.
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National Railroad Museum
The museum features some of the biggest locomotives ever to haul freight into Green Bays vast yards; train rides ($2) are offered in summer.
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Seacliff State Beach
Seacliff State Beach harbors a ‘cement boat,’ a quixotic freighter built of concrete that floated OK, but ended up here as a coastal fishing pier.
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St Johns Lutheran Church
A loose path, the Gateway Walk, winds through several church grounds and graveyards between St Johns Lutheran Church and St Philips Church.
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South Florida Science Center
If the kids are bored by all the opulence, treat them to the planetarium, aquarium and interactive exhibits at the South Florida Science Museum .
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Pompey’s Pillar National Monument
Home to the engraved 1806 signature of William Clark and the only physical evidence remaining of Lewis and Clark’s famed transcontinental journey
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Retreat Petting Farm
Say hello to farm animals and walk the farms network of recreational trails. Look for the large cluster of red barns (or listen for the goats).
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Horseshoe Canyon
Way far west of Island in the Sky, Horseshoe Canyon shelters one of the most impressive collections of millennia-old rock art in the Southwest.
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Healdsburg Museum
Exhibits include compelling installations on northern Sonoma County history, with an emphasis on Healdsburg. Pick up the walking-tour pamphlet.
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Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center
The Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center has a Norwegian stave church and 76ft replica of a 9th-century Viking ship with a heart-warming history.
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Three Rivers Historical Museum
Holds a small collection of local ranching, mining and domestic artifacts, as well as an archive of historical photographs and newspaper clippings.
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