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New Orleans has long served as a muse for artists, boasting a funky energy that powers exceptional creativity. The city is best known for its jazzy contribution to American music, but it also has a strong visual arts scene. After Hurricane Katrina, the scene blossomed anew as photo
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End of the World
Rarely do geographic titles so convincingly live up to their names, but then comes Keauhou’s End of the World. A Mordoresque lava plain of jagged ʻaʻa rock crinkles to the deep blue coast, and then drops steeply into the ocean. To get here, drive all the way to the end of Aliʻi Dr
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Mission San Antonio De Padua Mission
The mission was founded in 1771 by Franciscan priest Junípero Serra. Built with Native Californian labor, the church has been restored to its early 19th-century appearance, with a wooden pulpit, canopied altar and decorative flourishes on whitewashed walls. A creaky door leads to a
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WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument
One of the USA’s most significant WWII sites, this National Park Service monument narrates the history of the Pearl Harbor attack and commemorates fallen service members. The monument is entirely wheelchair accessible. The main entrance also leads to Pearl Harbor’s other parks and
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OK Corral
Site of the famous gunfight on October 26, 1881, the OK Corral is the heart of both historic and touristic Tombstone. It has models of the gunfighters and other exhibits, including CS Flys early photography studio and a recreated crib, the kind of room where local prostitutes would
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New York–New York
Opened in 1997, the mini-megalopolis of New York–New York features scaled-down replicas of the Big Apples landmarks, such as the Statue of Liberty and a miniature Brooklyn Bridge , out front. Rising above are perspective-warping replicas of the Chrysler, Empire State and Ziggurat b
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Mandalay Bay
The 1950s-era Hacienda resort was imploded on New Years Eve 1996 to clear the way for Mandalay Bay. This casino resorts upscale tropical theme may be subtle, but its grand opening – during which Jim Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman cruised through the front doors on motorcycle
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Sitka National Historical Park
Lincoln St ends at this 113-acre park, Alaska’s smallest national park, at the site where the Tlingits were finally defeated by the Russians in 1804.Totem Trail leads you one mile past 18 totems first displayed at the 1904 Louisiana Exposition in St Louis and then moved to the park
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Adventureland
Adventure Disney-style means pirates and jungles, magic carpets and tree houses, whimsical and silly representations of the exotic locales from storybooks and imagination. Dont miss Pirates of the Caribbean – the slow-moving boat through the dark and shadowy world of pirates remain
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Coney Island
About 50 minutes by subway from Midtown, this popular beach neighborhood makes for a great day trip. The wide sandy beach of Coney Island has retained its nostalgic, kitschy and slightly sleazy charms, wood-plank boardwalk and famous 1927 Cyclone roller coaster amid a modern amusem
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Mission Trail
Ready for some local history? This 9-mile trail links two mission churches and a presidio chapel, all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. Privately owned by the Catholic Diocese, theyre not always as visitor-friendly as you might like, but you can arrange a to
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Taos Pueblo
New Mexico’s most extraordinary – and beautiful – Native American site stands 3 miles northwest of Taos Plaza. An absolute must-see for anyone interested in Pueblo Indian life, history and culture, Taos Pueblo has been continuously inhabited for almost a thousand years, making it a
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Green Sands Beach
Also known as Papakolea Beach, this legendary beach on Mahana Bay isnt really that green, but it is a secluded, sandy strand. Its rare color comes from the semiprecious olivine crystals (a type of volcanic basalt) eroded from a cinder cone above, worn smooth by the relentless surf
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New York University
In 1831 Albert Gallatin, formerly Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, founded an intimate center of higher learning open to all students, regardless of race or class background. He’d scarcely recognize the place today, as it’s swelled to a student population
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Fraunces Tavern Museum
Combining five early-18th-century structures, this unique museum/restaurant/bar pays homage to the nation-shaping events of 1783, when the British relinquished control of New York at the end of the Revolutionary War, and General George Washington gave a farewell speech to the offic
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University of Washington
Founded in 1861, Seattles university is almost as old as the city itself and is highly ranked worldwide (the prestigious Times Higher Education magazine listed it 24th in the world in 2013). The college was originally located in downtown on a 10-acre site now occupied by the Fifth
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Flatiron Building
Designed by Daniel Burnham and built in 1920, the 20-story Flatiron Building has a uniquely narrow triangular footprint that resembles the prow of a massive ship. It also features a traditional beaux arts limestone and terra-cotta facade, built over a steel frame, that gets more co
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Times Square
Love it or hate it, the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Ave (aka: Times Square) pumps out the NYC of the global imagination – yellow cabs, golden arches, soaring skyscrapers and razzle-dazzle Broadway marquees. Its right here that Al Jolson made it in the 1927 film The Jazz Si
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Puʻukohola Heiau National Historic Site
By 1790 Kamehameha the Great had conquered Maui, Lanaʻi and Molokaʻi. But power over his home island of Hawaiʻi was a challenge. When told by a prophet that hed rule all of the Hawaiian Islands if he built a heiau dedicated to his war god Kukaʻilimoku atop Puʻukohola (Whale Hill) i
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Bread & Puppet Museum
Rolling though the Northeast Kingdom, its easy to become jaded at the sight of yet another barn. One in Glover definitely warrants a detour though – not for its livestock but for the cosmological universe of the Bread & Puppet Museum, lurking within.Formed in New York City by G
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