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Temple Emanu
An art-deco temple? Not exactly, but the smooth, bubbly dome and sleek, almost aerodynamic profile of this Conservative synagogue, established in 1938, fits right in on SoBe’s deco parade of moderne this and streamline that. Shabbat services are on Friday at 7pm and on Saturday at
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Sand Mountain Recreation Area
About 25 miles southeast of Fallon off US Hwy 50, this recreation area boasts sand dunes that ‘sing, ’ occasionally producing a low-pitched boom. The best time to hear it is on a hot, dry evening when the dunes are not covered with screeching off-road vehicles and whooping sandboar
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Healing Stones
A powerful Hawaiian chief was buried in a field about a mile away from town. The stone thought to have marked the site was subsequently moved to the graveyard and in the 1920s people attributed healing powers to it. Thousands made pilgrimages there. A housing development and a Meth
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Gas Works Park
Urban reclamation has no greater monument in Seattle than Gas Works Park. The former power station here produced gas for heating and lighting from 1906 to 1956. The gas works was thereafter understandably considered an eyesore and an environmental menace. But the beautiful location
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King Street Station
One of the pillars upon which Seattle built its early fortunes, the old Great Northern Railroad depot has suffered a lot of neglect since the 1960s – although the tide is now turning. The western terminus of the famous Empire Builder train that still runs cross-country between Seat
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Winchester Mystery House
An odd structure purposefully commissioned to be so by the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, the Winchester Mystery House is a ridiculous Victorian mansion with 160 rooms of various sizes and little utility, with dead-end hallways and a staircase that runs up to a ceiling all j
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Museum of Science & Industry
Sure, the nine permanent exhibits of this enormous museum examine just about every aspect of life on Earth, but its pleasures are in the details: chicks struggling to peck their way out of shells in the baby chick hatchery, the whimsical little high jinks of wooden puppets in the C
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Apollo Theater
The Apollo is an intrinsic part of Harlem history and culture. A leading space for concerts and political rallies since 1914, its venerable stage hosted virtually every major black artist in the 1930s and ’40s, including Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday. Decades later, it would he
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Industrial Trust Building
Come to Providence and you’ll find an urban assemblage of unsurpassable architectural merit – at least in the States. It’s the only American city to have its entire downtown listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. The beaux-arts City Hall makes an imposing centerpiece t
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ʻIao Needle
Rising straight up 2250ft, this velvety green pinnacle is Maui’s iconic landmark. Most people shoot their mandatory photos from the bridge near the parking lot. A better idea is to take the walkway just before the bridge that loops downhill by ʻIao Stream. This leads to the nicest
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Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum is a monument to Dave Pahl’s obsession with hammers. He has 1500 on display, a 20ft-high one outside and several hundred more in storage. In the world’s only hammer museum you learn world history through the development of the hammer, from one less than ¼oz to ano
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George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum
Opened on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 2013 at a cost of over $300 million, this vast facility documents the presidency of George W Bush. Like other presidential libraries it has two missions: to allow research and to present a record of the president to th
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George Bush Presidential Library & Museum
Whether they agree with the former presidents politics or not, Republic and and Democrats alike would have a hard time arguing this is anything but one darn fine museum. The well-curated exhibits trace the elder President Bushs life and career, and serve as an interesting primer on
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Fort Funston
Grassy dunes up to 200ft high at Fort Funston give an idea what the Sunset looked like until the 20th century. A defunct military installation, Fort Funston still has 146-ton WWII guns aimed seaward and abandoned Nike missile silos near the parking lot. Nuclear missiles were never
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Self
No matter your religious persuasion, any negative vibes seem to disappear while strolling through these uplifting meditation gardens. Paths meander around a spring-fed, artificial lake and past clumps of flowers and swaying palms to the Windmill Chapel where George Harrison’s memor
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Donner Memorial State Park
At the eastern end of Donner Lake, this state-run park occupies one of the sites where the doomed Donner Party got trapped during the fateful winter of 1846–47. Though its history is gruesome, the park is gorgeous and has a sandy beach, picnic tables hiking trails and wintertime cr
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Canterbury Shaker Village
A traditional Shaker community from 1792, Canterbury Shaker Village maintains the Shaker heritage as a living-history museum. Interpreters demonstrate the Shakers daily lives, artisans create Shaker crafts, and walking trails invite pond-side strolls. The greening of America has de
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Biscuit Basin
Two miles north of Black Sand Basin, Biscuit Basin is named for biscuit-like deposits that surrounded stunning Sapphire Pool , but these were destroyed during violent eruptions that followed the nearby 1959 Hebgen earthquake. If you’re low on time, this is one basin you could safel
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Cesar E Chavez National Monument
This newly designated national monument, Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, is the national headquarters of the United Farmworkers of America and was the home of civil rights leader César Chávez from 1971 until his death in 1993. On view are exhibits on Chávezs work, his office, and g
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Southern Beaches
About 1 mile south of downtown, secluded Victoria Beach has volleyball courts and La Tour , a Rapunzel’s-tower-like structure from 1926. Skimboarding (at the south end) and scuba diving are popular here. Take the stairs down Victoria Dr; there’s limited parking along PCH.Further so
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