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Empire Mine State Historic Park
Atop 400 miles of mine shafts tunneling 11,000ft below is Gold Country’s best-preserved gold quartz–mining operation – worth a solid half-day’s exploration. The mine yard is littered with mining equipment and buildings constructed from waste rock. You can view main shafts claustrop
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Crawford Notch State Park
In 1826 torrential rains in this steep valley caused massive mud slides that descended on the home of the Willey family. The house was spared, but the family was not – they were outside at the fatal moment and were swept away by the mud. The dramatic incident made the newspapers an
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John Muir Residence
Just 15 miles north of Walnut Creek, the John Muir residence sits in a pastoral patch of farmland in bustling, modern Martinez. Though Muir wrote of sauntering the High Sierra with a sack of tea and bread, it may be a shock for those familiar with the iconic Sierra Club founder’s a
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Mahaiʻula Beach
Kekaha Kai (Kona Coast) State Parks largest beach has salt-and-pepper sand, rocky tide pools, shaded picnic tables and pit toilets. Swimming usually isnt good, but during big winter swells, surfing happens. Walk a few minutes north along the coast to find a second, less rocky beach
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Queen Emma Summer Palace
In the heat and humidity of summer, Queen Emma (1836–85), the wife and royal consort of Kamehameha IV, used to slip away from her formal downtown Honolulu home to this cooler hillside retreat in Nuʻuanu Valley. Gracious docents from the Daughters of Hawaiʻi society show off the cat
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Hillwood Museum & Gardens
Hillwood, the former estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post (of Post cereal fame) and her third husband, the ambassador to the USSR, contains the biggest collection of Russian imperial art to be found outside of Russia. Post amassed loads of Czarist swag, and her lavishly decorated m
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Pocket Basin
Pocket Basin is one of the least-known and little-visited thermal basins in the valley. Its actually a miniature caldera, originally created by a hydrothermal explosion that must have been roughly on the scale of an atomic bomb. The basin isn’t on the scale of the more famous therm
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Olympic Sculpture Park
Terraced over train tracks, in an unlikely oasis between the water and busy Western Ave, is the 8.5-acre, $85-million Olympic Sculpture Park. Worth a visit just for its views of the Olympic Mountains over Elliott Bay, the park has various large contemporary sculptures and is popula
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Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
The 4662-acre sanctuaryoccupies the southern three-quarters of Plum Island. More than 800 species of birds, plants and animals reside in its many ecological habitats, including beaches, sand dunes, salt pans, salt marshes, freshwater impoundments and maritime forests. There are se
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LBJ Ranch
Fourteen miles to the west is the LBJ Ranch, now part of the Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park. Stop by the Visitor Center to get your free park permit, a map and a free CD audio tour; admission is only charged if you opt to take the half-hour tour of the Johnson home. The
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Waiʻoli Huiʻia Church & Waiʻoli Mission House
A popular site for quaint church weddings, the original Waiʻoli Huiʻia Church was built by Hanalei’s first missionaries, William and Mary Alexander, who arrived in 1834 in a double-hulled canoe. Today the church, hall and mission house remain in the middle of town, set on a huge ma
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Puʻu o Mahuka Heiau State Historic Site
A cinematic coastal panorama and a stroll around the grounds of Oʻahus largest temple reward those who venture up to this national historic landmark, perched on a bluff above Waimea Bay. Its a dramatically windswept and lonely site. Though the ruined walls leave a lot to be imagine
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Soldier Field
Built between 1922 and 1926 to pay homage to WWI soldiers, this oft-renovated edifice has been home to everything from civil-rights speeches by Martin Luther King Jr to Brazilian soccer games. It got its latest UFO-landing-upon-a-Greek-ruin look in a controversial 2003 makeover. Th
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Grand Canyon West
Nowadays, the only way to visit Grand Canyon West, the section of the west rim overseen by the Hualapai Nation, is to purchase a package tour. These include a hop-on, hop-off shuttle ride which loops to scenic points along the rim. Tours can include lunch, cowboy activities at an e
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MASS MoCA
Welcome to MASS MoCA, which sprawls over 13 acres of downtown North Adams, or about one-third of the entire business district. After the Sprague Electric Company packed up in 1985, more than $31 million was spent to modernize the property into the largest gallery in the United Stat
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Tenderloin National Forest
Urban blight is interrupted by bucolic splendor on one of the Tenderloins grittiest blocks. Once littered with hypodermic needles and garbage, dead-end Cohen Alley has been transformed by a nonprofit artists collective. A grove of trees is taking root, concrete walls are covered wi
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Sunset Gower & Sunset Bronson Studios
Two intersections with a ton of cinematic history. When Nestor Film Company moved to the corner of Sunset and Gower in 1911 it became the Sunset Gower Studios , which birthed Columbia Pictures when the Cohn brothers took it over and signed Frank Capra as their star auteur. Jack War
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Escaped slave, abolitionist, author and statesman Frederick Douglass occupied this beautifully sited hilltop house from 1878 until his death in 1895. Original furnishings, books, photographs and other personal belongings paint a compelling portrait of both the private and public li
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Olowalu Petroglyphs
A short walk behind the general store leads to petroglyphs (ancient Hawaiian stone carvings) dating back 200 to 300 years. To get to them, park just beyond the water tower at the back of the store. It’s a 440yd or so walk up an open road to the petroglyph site. The road is easy to
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Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
In the 1960s and 70s, 450 Minutemen II intercontinental ballistic missiles, always at the ready in underground silos, were just 30 minutes from their targets in the Soviet Union. The missiles have since been retired (more modern ones still lurk underground across the northern Great
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