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Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) Library & Museum
A major renovation has brought the museum into the new millennium with interactive exhibits and audiovisual displays. Fortunately, they didnt lose the hokey, animatronic LBJ that regales visitors with the presidents recorded stories – although they did stir some controversy when th
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Cannery Row
John Steinbeck’s novel Cannery Row immortalized the sardine-canning business that was Monterey’s lifeblood for the first half of the 20th century. A bronze bust of the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer sits at the bottom of Prescott Ave, just steps from the unabashedly touristy experie
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Old Valdez
Valdez has been unduly blessed by nature, but at 5:46pm on March 27, 1964, came payback time. Some 45 miles west of town and roughly 14 miles under the ground, a fault ruptured, triggering a magnitude 9.2 earthquake – the most powerful ever in American history. The land rippled as
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Church of the Holy Ascension
Unalaska is dominated by the Church of the Holy Ascension, the oldest Russian-built church still standing in Alaska. It was built in 1825 and then enlarged in 1894, when its floor plan was changed to a pekov (the shape of a crucifix). Overlooking the bay, the church and its onion d
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Fort Worden State Park
This attractive park located within Port Townsends city limits is the remains of a large fortification system constructed in the 1890s to protect the strategically important Puget Sound area from outside attack – supposedly from the Spanish during the 1898 war. Sharp-eyed film buff
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Springfield Armory National Historic Site
This national historic site preserves what remains of the USAs greatest federal armory, built under the command of General George Washington during the American Revolution. During its heyday in the Civil War, it turned out 1000 muskets a day. A college now occupies many of the form
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MassArt
This is the country’s first and only four-year independent public art college. Theres always some thought-provoking or sense-stimulating exhibits to see at one of seven galleries on campus. In the South Building, the Bakalar and Paine galleries host nationally and internationally k
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Fairview Inn
Though not an official museum, the Fairview Inn might as well be. Founded in 1923 to serve as the overnight stop between Seward and Fairbanks on the newly constructed Alaska Railroad, the inn is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its old plank-floored saloon is cl
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Palomar Observatory
High on Palomar Mountain, at an elevation of 5500ft to avoid light pollution, the Palomar Observatory is simply spectacular – as large as Rome’s Pantheon, with a classic design dating from the 1930s. Run by Pasadena’s prestigious California Institute of Technology , it houses five
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Twitter Headquarters
Market Sts traffic-stopping 1937 Mayan deco landmark was built to accommodate 300 wholesale furniture design showrooms – but a decade ago, less than 30 remained. The city offered tax breaks to Twitter to move here from its South Park headquarters, and after a $1.2 million LEED-cert
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Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
DC was built on a marsh, a beautiful, brackish, low-lying ripple of saw grass and steel-blue water, wind-coaxed and tide touched by the inflow of the Potomac from Chesapeake Bay. You’d never know all that now, of course, unless you come to the USAs only national park devoted to wat
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Edward Kennedy Institute for the US Senate
Ted Kennedy served in the US Senate for nearly half a century. It is fitting, therefore, that his legacy should include an institute and museum designed to teach the public about the inner workings of democracy. Brand new in 2015, this state-of-the-art facility uses advanced techno
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Ford’s Theatre
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in his box seat here. Timed-entry tickets let you see the flag-draped site. They also provide entry to the basement museum (displaying Booths .44-caliber pistol, his muddy boot etc) and to Petersen House (across the
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Washington Square
This plain-looking park across from the Newberry Library has quite a history. In the 1920s it was known as ‘Bughouse Sq’ because of the communists, socialists, anarchists and other -ists who gave soapbox orations here. Clarence Darrow and Carl Sandburg are among the respected speak
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Hawaii Childrens Discovery Center
On a rainy day when you cant go to the beach, consider dropping by this hands-on museum for families. Opposite Kakaʻako Waterfront Park, the buildling was once the citys garbage incinerator, as evidenced by the surviving smokestack. Interactive science and cultural exhibits are gea
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Battleship Missouri Memorial
The last battleship built at the end of WWII, the USS Missouri provides a unique historical bookend to the US campaign in the Pacific during WWII. Nicknamed the Mighty Mo this decommissioned battleship saw action during the decisive WWII battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The USS Mis
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park
We won’t go so far as to call it Texas’ best-kept secret, but the fact is that a lot of Texans aren’t even aware of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. It’s just this side of the Texas–New Mexico state line and a long drive from practically everywhere in the state. Despite its l
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Dole Plantation
Expect a sticky-sweet overdose of everything ananas (pineapples) when you walk into Dole Plantation’s visitor-center gift shop. After you’ve watched fruit-cutting demonstrations and bought your fill of pineapple potato chips and fruity trinkets, take your pineapple ice-cream sundae
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Old St Marys Cathedral & Square
Californias first cathedral was started in 1854 by an Irish entrepreneur determined to give wayward San Francisco some religion – despite its location on brothel-lined Dupont St. The 1906 earthquake miraculously spared the churchs brick walls but destroyed a bordello across the str
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Swedenborgian Church
Radical ideals in the form of distinctive buildings make beloved SF landmarks; this standout 1894 example is the collaborative effort of 19th-century Bay Area progressive thinkers, such as naturalist John Muir, California Arts and Crafts leader Bernard Maybeck and architect Arthur
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