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Uwajimaya
Founded by Fujimatsu Moriguchi, one of the few Japanese to return here from the WWII internment camps, this large department and grocery store – a cornerstone of Seattle’s Asian community – has everything from fresh fish and exotic fruits and vegetables to cooking utensils, and you
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Uncle Toms Trail
Uncle Tom’s Trail offers the best views of the Upper and Lower Falls. The trail itself is a steep route that descends 500ft down 328 metal steps to the base of the Lower Falls. The trail was constructed in 1898 by early park entrepreneur Uncle Tom Richardson, who would lead tourist
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Koko Crater Botanical Garden
According to Hawaiian legend, Koko Crater is the imprint left by the magical flying vagina of Kapo, sent from the Big Island to lure the pig-god Kamapuaʻa away from her sister Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes. Inside the crater today is a quiet, county-run botanical
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New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
New Orleans, like few American cities of its size, lives and dies off its arts scene. This is a city unapologetically in love with (and largely built on) the work of its musicians, painters and writers, and many of the next generation of such artists are educated at Nocca. As it is
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New York City Fire Museum
In a grand old firehouse dating from 1904, this ode to firefighters includes a fantastic collection of historic equipment and artifacts. Eye up everything from horse-drawn firefighting carriages and early stovepipe firefighter hats, to Chief, a four-legged fire-fighting hero from B
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New World Center
Miami has a penchant for sumptuous performing-arts venues and the New World Center is certainly competing with the Arsht Center for most-impressive concert hall in the city. Designed by Frank Gehry, the Center rises majestically out of a manicured lawn just above Lincoln Rd, lookin
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Nature Center & Planetarium
The Nature Center & Planetarium is the main visitor center for Rock Creek Park. Besides exhibits on park flora, fauna and history, it has two small nature trails, tons of information, and maps and field guides to the city. A ‘touch table’ is set up for kids, and rangers lead ch
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Fort Williams Park
Four miles southeast of Portland on Cape Elizabeth, 90-acre Fort Williams Parkis worth visiting simply for the panoramas and picnic possibilities. Stroll around the ruins of the fort, a late-19th-century artillery base, checking out the WWII bunkers and gun emplacements (a German U
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Casa Casuarina
Perhaps more widely known as the Versace Mansion, Casa Casuarina was the residence of late fashion designer Gianni Versace. Long before Versace, however, the 1930 building was known as the Amsterdam Palace. A Mediterranean Revival house constructed partially of coral and featuring
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Bowling Green
New York’s oldest – and possibly tiniest – public park is purportedly the spot where Dutch settler Peter Minuit paid Native Americans the equivalent of $24 to purchase Manhattan Island. At its northern edge stands Arturo Di Modicas 7000lb bronze Charging Bull, placed here permanent
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Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
The city’s second-oldest cemetery – dating to 1660 – is the final resting place for an estimated 10,000 souls. It is named for William Copp, who originally owned this land. While the oldest graves belong to Copps children, there are several other noteworthy residents. Near the Char
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Kaʻupulehu Cultural Center
Inside the Four Seasons Hawaiian cultural center is a small, museum-quality exhibit organized around a collection of 11 original paintings by Herb Kawainui Kane. Each painting is accompanied by a hands-on exhibit about traditional Hawaiian culture: shake an ʻuliʻuli (feathered hula
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San Fernando Cathedral
More than just another pretty church, San Fernandos role in the Battle of the Alamo makes it an important local landmark. In happier times, future Alamo hero James Bowie was married here. But as Bowie defended the Alamo just across the river, Mexican general Santa Anna took over th
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Hispanic Society of America Museum & Library
Housed in the beaux arts structure that naturalist John James Audubon once called home, this treasure contains the largest collection of 19th-century Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain – including paintings by El Greco, Goya and Velázquez. While Anna Hyatt Huntington’s ma
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Hancock Park & Larchmont Village
LA has gorgeous homes galore, but there’s nothing quite like the old-money mansions flanking the tree-lined streets of Hancock Park, a genteel neighborhood roughly bounded by Highland and Rossmore and Melrose and Wilshire. LA’s founding families, including the Dohenys and Chandlers
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Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour
One of the Seattle area’s most worthwhile outlying sights is the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour in the city of Everett, 25 miles north of Seattle. Serving as a good complement to Georgetown’s Museum of Flight , the center, aside from its museum, offers something
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Battle Green
The historic Battle Green is where the skirmish between patriots and British troops jumpstarted the War for Independence. The Lexington Minuteman Statue (crafted by Henry Hudson Kitson in 1900) stands guard at the southeast end of Battle Green, honoring the bravery of the 77 minute
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Museum of Science
This educational playground has more than 600 interactive exhibits. Favorites include the world’s largest lightning-bolt generator, a full-scale space capsule, a world population meter and a butterfly house. The amazing array of exhibits and presentations explores computers and tec
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Joshua L Chamberlain Museum
The Pejepscot Historical Society preserves several house museums on the Bowdoin campus, which provide a fascinating glimpse into the past. The Joshua L Chamberlain Museum exhibits artifacts from the late owner’s eventful life as college professor, Civil War hero, president of Bowdo
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Partington Cove
Its a raw, breathtaking spot where crashing surf salts your skin. On the steep, half-mile dirt hike down to the cove, you’ll cross a cool bridge and go through an even cooler tunnel. The coves water is unbelievably aqua and within it grow tangled kelp forests. Look for the unmarked
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