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Rose Bowl Stadium & Brookside Park
One of LA’s most venerable landmarks, the 1922 Rose Bowl Stadium can seat up to 93,000 spectators and has its moment in the sun every New Year’s Day when it hosts the famous Rose Bowl post-season college football game. At other times, the UCLA Bruins play their home games here, and
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Ocean Institute
This child-friendly educational center encompasses four separate ocean-centric ‘adventures.’ On Sundays, admission includes the opportunity to discover what life was like aboard an early 19th-century tall ship, the brig Pilgrim . Guided tours of this full-size replica of the ship s
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Grand Canyon National Park North Rim
Solitude reigns supreme on the Grand Canyons North Rim: there isnt much of anything here beyond a classic rimside national park lodge and miles of trails carving through sunny meadows thick with wildflowers, willowy aspen and towering ponderosa pines. Amid these forested roads and
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Charles Lindbergh’s Grave
Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, moved to remote Kipahulu in 1968. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he decided to forgo treatment on the mainland and lived out his final days here. Following his death in 1974, Lindbergh was buried in the
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Bridalveil Fall
At the southwest end of the Valley, Bridalveil Fall tumbles 620ft. The Ahwahneechee people call it Pohono (Spirit of the Puffing Wind), as gusts often blow the fall from side to side, even lifting water back up into the air. This waterfall usually runs year-round, though it’s often
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Bob Kaufman Alley
What, you mean your hometown doesn’t have a street named after an African American Catholic-Jewish-voodoo anarchist street poet? The Beat poet revered in France as the ‘American Rimbaud’ co-founded legendary Beatitudes magazine in 1959, and was a spoken-word jazz artist never at a
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National Aquarium
Standing seven stories high and capped by a glass pyramid, this is widely considered to be the best aquarium in America, with 17,000 creatures of over 750 species, a rooftop rainforest, a central ray pool and a multistory shark tank. Theres also a reconstruction of the Umbrawarra G
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Norman Rockwell Museum
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) was born in New York City, and he sold his first magazine cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post in 1916. In the following half-century he did another 321 covers for the Post, as well as illustrations for books, posters and many other magazines
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Stephen Hopkins House
Immediately east of downtown Providence, you’ll find College Hill, where you can see the city’s colonial history reflected in the multihued 18th-century houses that line Benefit Street on the East Side. These are, for the most part, private homes, but many are open for tours one we
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Jonathan Dickinson State Park
With almost 11,500 acres to explore, this is an excellent state park between US Hwy 1 and the Loxahatchee River. Theres no ocean access in the park, but its attraction lies in its several habitats: pine flatwoods, cypress stands, swamp and increasingly endangered coastal sand-pine
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Kaihalulu (Red Sand) Beach
A favored haunt of nude sunbathers, this hidden cove on the south side of Kaʻuiki Head is a beauty in contrasts, with rich red sand set against brilliant turquoise waters. The cove is partly protected by a lava outcrop, but currents can be powerful when the surf’s up (Kaihalulu mea
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Baker Berry Library
On the north side of the green is Dartmouth Colleges central Baker Berry Library. The reserve corridor on the lower level houses an impressive mural called Epic of American Civilization , by José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949). The renowned Mexican muralist taught and painted at Dartm
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Dealey Plaza & the Grassy Knoll
Now a National Historic Landmark, this rectangular park is south of the former Book Depository. Dealey Plaza was named in 1935 for George Bannerman Dealey, a longtime Dallas journalist, historian and philanthropist. Just steps from here, John Kennedy was assassinated in September 1
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Original Playboy Mansion
The sexual revolution pretty much started in the basement ‘grotto’ of this 1899 mansion. Chicago magazine impresario Hugh Hefner bought it in 1959 and dubbed it the first Playboy Mansion, even hanging a brass plate over the door warning ‘If You Don’t Swing, Don’t Ring’. Alas, Chica
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Fantasyland
Fantasyland is filled with the characters of classic children’s stories. If you only see one attraction in Fantasyland, visit it’s a small world , a boat ride past hundreds of creepy Audio-Animatronic children from different cultures all singing the annoying theme song in an astoun
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Sutro Baths
Hard to imagine from these ruins, but Victorian dandies and working stiffs once converged here for bracing baths in itchy wool rental swimsuits. Millionaire Adolph Sutro built hot and cold indoor pools to accommodate 10,000 unwashed masses in 1896, but the masses apparently preferr
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Houmas House
In the 1940s members of the same Crozat family that salvaged Bocage Plantation also purchased Houmas House , 2 miles downriver. The original structure, built in the 1790s, now forms the back end of the main Greek-revival house, built in 1840. In its heyday, this plantation controll
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Kapaʻa Beach Park
From the highway, you’d think that Kapaʻa is beachless. But along the coast is a mile-long ribbon of beach that’s very low-key. While the whole area is officially a county park called Kapaʻa Beach Park, that name is commonly used only for the northern end, where there’s a grassy fi
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Theater District
New Yorks Theater District covers an area stretching roughly from 40th St to 54th St between Sixth and Eighth Aves, with dozens of Broadway and off-Broadway theaters spanning blockbuster musicals to new and classic drama. Unless theres a specific show youre after, the best – and ch
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Montpelier
Thomas Jefferson gets all the attention in these parts, but its well worth branching out and visiting James Madisons Montpelier, a spectacular estate 25 miles northeast of Charlottesville (off Hwy 20). Madison was a brilliant but shy man, who devoted himself to his books; he was al
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