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Maui Ocean Center
This midsize aquarium showcases Hawaii’s dazzling marine life, including many species found nowhere else. The floorplan takes you on an ocean journey, beginning with nearshore reefs teeming with colorful tropical fish and ending with deep-ocean sealife. The grand finale is a 54ft c
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Brown University
Dominating the crest of the College Hill neighborhood on the East Side, the campus of Brown University exudes Ivy League charm. University Hall , a 1770 brick edifice used as a barracks during the Revolutionary War, sits at its center. To explore the campus, start at the wrought-ir
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Logan Pass
Perched above the tree line, atop the wind-lashed Continental Divide, and blocked by snow for most of the year, 2026m (6646ft) Logan Pass – named for William R Logan, Glacier’s first superintendent – is the park’s highest navigable point by road. Two trails, Hidden Lake Overlook (w
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Makah Museum
Hosted by the Makah Reservation, this museum displays artifacts from one of North Americas most significant archaeological finds and is reason enough to visit the town. Exposed by tidal erosion in 1970, the 500-year-old Makah village of Ozette proved to be a treasure trove of nativ
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Deming Luna Mimbres Museum
One of New Mexico’s best regional museums, a sprawling, enormous affair that holds a superb display of Mimbres pottery, and a great doll collection, including one rescued from the rubble of Hiroshima. A re-created Victorian street includes the actual contents of many long-lost loca
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Frontier Texas!
Reason enough to stop if youre anyplace near Abilene, Frontier Texas! makes 100 years of frontier history (1780–1880) possibly more interesting than the real thing. The museum also serves as the main visitor information center for the region. Life-size holograms and other special
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Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center
More a research facility and museum than a visitors center, this impressive place has numerous cool interactive exhibits. The best is a room that’s a replica seabird colony, complete with cacophonous bird calls and surround-view flocking. There’s also a decent film about ship-based
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Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
These fields and marshes, 8 miles south of Socorro, are the wintering ground for migratory birds including snow geese, sandhill cranes and bald eagles, though sadly no longer the whooping crane. The season lasts from late October to March, and peaks in December and January. Upwards
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Garden of the Gods
The only fertilizer that might work in this garden is cement. Often weirdly shaped volcanic rocks are strewn about this seemingly martian landscape. Multihued rocks and earth, with a palette from amber to rust to sienna, are stunning. Its utterly silent up here and you can see up t
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Crissy Field
War is for the birds at Crissy Field, a military airstrip turned waterfront nature preserve with knockout Golden Gate views. Where military aircraft once zoomed in for landings, bird-watchers now huddle in the silent rushes of a reclaimed tidal marsh. Joggers pound beachside trails
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Museum of Contemporary Art
This Financial District museum has brought an ever-changing variety of innovative artwork to San Diegans since the 1960s here in the downtown location and La Jolla branch ; check the website for exhibits. Across from the main building, a slickly renovated section of San Diego’s tra
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South Padre Island Birding & Nature Center
Part of the World Birding Center, this 50-acre nature preserve has boardwalks through the dunes, bird blinds, spotting towers and much more. Learn the differences between a dune meadow, a salt marsh and an intertidal flat – and there wont even be a quiz after. The exhibit hall is i
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Waimanalo Bay Beach Park
A wide forest of ironwoods hides a broad sandy beach with little development in sight. This 75-acre county park has Waimanalo Bay’s biggest waves and is popular with board surfers and bodyboarders. Even if you’re not planning to hit the water, just take a walk along the cream-color
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Mokupapapa Discovery Center
The Hawaiian archipelago extends far beyond the eight main islands to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, forming a long chain of uninhabited islets and atolls containing the healthiest coral reefs in the USA. Learn more about the islands pristine ecosystems at this compelling museu
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Coit Tower
The exclamation mark on San Francisco skyline is Coit Tower, with 360-degree views of downtown and wrap-around 1930s murals glorifying SF workers – once denounced as Communist, but now a landmark. For a wild parrots panoramic view of San Francisco 210ft above the city, take the ele
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Southeast Alaska Discovery Center
Three large totems greet you in the lobby of the center while a school of silver salmon, suspended from the ceiling, leads you toward a slice of nicely recreated rainforest. Upstairs, the exhibit hall features sections on Southeast Alaska’s ecosystems and Alaska Native traditions.
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Grove Farm
History buffs adore this plantation museum, but kids may grow restless. Grove Farm once ranked among the most productive sugar companies on Kauaʻi. George Wilcox, the Hilo-born son of Protestant missionaries, acquired the farm in 1864. The main house feels suspended in time, with r
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Pentagon
South of Arlington Cemetery is the Pentagon, the largest office building in the world. Outside you may visit the Pentagon Memorial ; 184 illuminated benches honor each person killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon. To get inside the building, youll have
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Laws Railroad Museum
Railroad and Old West aficionados should make the 6-mile detour north on Hwy 6 to this museum. It re-creates the village of Laws, an important stop on the route of the Slim Princess, a narrow-gauge train that hauled freight and passengers across the Owens Valley for nearly 80 years
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Royal Street
Royal St, with its rows of high-end antiques shops, block after block of galleries and potted ferns hanging from cast-iron balconies, is the elegant yin to Bourbon St’s Sodom-and-Gomorrah yang. Stroll or bicycle past its patina beauty and fading grace; chat with locals as they loun
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