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International Boulevard
Formerly known as E 14th St, this once-neglected - and still sometimes seedy - part of town has been renamed International Blvd and can be a great place to stroll on a Sunday afternoon. Latino and Asian immigrants have turned it into a 3-mile carnival of food and festivities. Youll
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Chinati Foundation Museum
This is it. This is what all the fuss is about. Minimalist artist Donald Judd single-handedly put Marfa on the art-world map when he created the Chinati Foundation on the site of a former army post, using the abandoned buildings to create and display one of the worlds largest perma
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Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave
This museum celebrates the life and legend of William F ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody, an icon of the American West. At his request he was buried at this site overlooking both the Great Plains and the Rockies, and today it attracts a steady stream of RVs to snap pictures of his statue. The m
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Ancient Spanish Monastery
The Episcopal Church of St Bernard de Clairvaux is a stunning early-Gothic and Romanesque building. Constructed in 1141 in Segovia, Spain, it was converted to a granary 700 years later, and eventually bought by newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. He had it dismantled and ship
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Kreeger Museum
One of DC’s more obscure attractions, this little-known museum is tucked away in the hills northwest of Georgetown and houses a fantastic collection of 20th-century modernist art. The art – by Renoir, Picasso and Mark Rothko, among many others – represents the amassed collection of
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Biltmore Hotel
In the most opulent neighborhood of one of the showiest cities in the world, the Biltmore peers down her nose and says, ‘hrmph’. It’s one of the greatest of the grand hotels of the American Jazz Age, and if this joint were a fictional character from a novel, it’d be, without questi
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United Nations
Welcome to the headquarters of the UN, a worldwide organization overseeing international law, international security and human rights. While the Le Corbusier–designed Secretariat building is off-limits, one-hour guided tours do cover the recently restored General Assembly Hall, Sec
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Matanuska Glacier
Some 18,000 years ago this glacier covered the entire area where the city of Palmer sits today. It must have appeared a supernatural force back then, whereas these days it’s merely a grand spectacle and open geological classroom. Entry to Matanuska is via Glacier Park Resort (Mile
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Make Horse Beach
Make Horse Beach supposedly takes its name from days past when wild horses were run off the tall, dark cliff on its northern end; make (mah -kay) means dead. This pretty, tiny white-sand cove is a local favorite and more secluded than Kepuhi further to the south. Its a sublime spot
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Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Home to giant sequoia redwood trees reaching as high as 325ft and with trunk diameters up to 33ft, these leftovers from the Mesozoic era are thought to weigh upwards of 3000 tons, or close to 20 blue whales. The redwood giants are distributed in two large groves, one of which is ea
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Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin is the first museum in the Western world to dedicate itself to the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions. Its impressive collections include embroidered textiles from China, metal sculptures from Tibet, Pakistani stone sculptures and intricate Bhutanese paintings,
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Old Faithful Inn
Designed by Seattle architect Robert C Reamer and built in 1904, this is the only building in the park that looks like it actually belongs here. The log rafters of its seven-story lobby rise nearly 80ft, and the chimney of the central fireplace (actually eight fireplaces combined)
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Newberry Crater
Newberry Crater was formed by the eruption of what was one of the largest and most active volcanoes in Oregon. Successive flows cover 500 square miles. As with Crater Lake, the summit of the volcano collapsed after a large eruption, creating a caldera.Initially a single body of wat
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Brooklyn Museum
This encyclopedic museum is housed in a five-story, 560,000-sq-ft beaux-arts building designed by McKim, Mead & White. Today, the building houses more than 1.5 million objects, including ancient artifacts, 19th-century period rooms, and sculptures and painting from across sever
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Antelope Canyon
Unearthly in its beauty, Antelope Canyon is a popular slot canyon on the Navajo Reservation, a few miles east of Page, and open to tourists by tour only. Wind and water have carved sandstone into an astonishingly sensuous temple of nature where light and shadow play hide and seek.
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Washington State University
Situated 7 miles west of the Idaho state line, most of Pullmans sights are related directly to expansive WSU, which accommodates more than 22,000 students and one of Washingtons leading agricultural schools. In this small city within a city is the WSUs Museum of Art , which mounts
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South Park
South Park ‘Dot-com’ was the word on the street here in the mid-’90s, when venture capitalists plotted website launches in parkside cafes with tattooed 20-something techies. But speculation is nothing new to South Park, which was planned by a real-estate speculator in the 1850s as
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Trung Tam Phat Giao Van Hanh Temple
To see where New Orleans Vietnamese work and play, you need to drive a little ways out of the city proper. Although many Vietnamese refugees were Catholic, Vietnamese religion has always been pretty syncretic, and there were many Buddhists among the boat people. In New Orleans East
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Legion of Honor
A museum as eccentric and illuminating as San Francisco itself, the Legion showcases a wildly eclectic collection ranging from Monet water lilies to John Cage soundscapes, ancient Iraqi ivories to R Crumb comics. Upstairs are blockbuster shows of Old Masters and Impressionists, but
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National Museum of American History
The museum collects all kinds of artifacts of the American experience. The centerpiece is the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812 – the same flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to pen The Star-Spangled Banner . Other highlights include Julia Childs
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