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MIT Museum
Leave it to the mischievous brainiacs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to come up with the city’s quirkiest museum. For example, an exhibit called Robots and Beyond demonstrates MIT’s ongoing work on artificial intelligence. You can meet humanoid robots like observant
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Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
A birder’s heaven, this 2088-acre refuge run by the US Fish and Wildlife Service is one of the valley’s most beautiful spots. Lakes, wetlands, thorny bushes and palms combine for a bucolic setting where the only noises come from birds. The refuge is the seasonal home to almost 400
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Tumacácori National Historic Park
Three miles south of Tubac, this pink-and-cream edifice shimmers in the desert like a conquistadors dream. In 1691 Father Eusebio Kino and his cohorts arrived at the Tumacácori settlement and quickly founded a mission to convert the local Native Americans. However, repeated Apache
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Mary Baker Eddy Library & Mapparium
The Mary Baker Eddy Library houses one of Boston’s hidden treasures. The intriguing Mapparium is a room-size, stained-glass globe that visitors walk through on a glass bridge. It was created in 1935, which is reflected in the globe’s geopolitical boundaries. The acoustics, which su
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Ice Age Discovery Center
In October 2010, a bulldozer working near Snowmass unearthed the tusk of a female mammoth. Spurred by this unusual discovery, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science moved in for the next 10 months to conduct its largest-ever fossil excavation, resulting in the discovery of some 50
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Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center
There are a few contenders for best visitor center in Alaska but this one, a ingenious mix of museum, info point and cultural center, has to be in the top two or three. Inside are exhibits on Alaskan history and native culture, as well as daily movies and cultural performances. Out
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Foster Botanical Garden
Tropical plants you’ve only ever read about can be spotted in all their glory at this botanic garden, which took root in 1850. Among its rarest specimens are the Hawaiian loulu palm and the East African Gigasiphon macrosiphon, both thought to be extinct in the wild. Several of the
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Yankee Stadium
The Boston Red Sox like to talk about their record of eight World Series championships in the last 90 years – well, the Yankees have won a mere 27 in that period. The team’s magic appeared to have moved with them across 161st St to the new Yankee Stadium, where they played their fi
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Pratt Museum
There’s lots of local art and Alaska Native artifacts, but a more impressive feature is the interactive displays on the area’s wildlife, designed to mesmerize both kids and ex-kids. More sobering is the Storm Warning Theater, with harrowing tales about fishing on Kachemak Bay, wher
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Park
This L-shaped 45-acre park , along with Old City, has been dubbed Americas most historic square mile. Once the backbone of the United States government, today it is the backbone of Philadelphias tourist trade. Stroll around and youll see storied buildings in which the seeds for the
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Museum of Arts & Sciences
This self-guided museum has a healthy dose of brain food for a fast and furious little town like Daytona. Theres a delightful mishmash of everything from Cuban art to Coca-Cola memorabilia, train cars to teddy bears and even the 13ft skeleton of a giant sloth. At the time of writin
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Moir Gardens
If cacti are your fancy, Moir Gardens offers a modest oasis on the grounds of the Kiahuna Plantation condo. Its a low-key, approachable collection of mature cacti and succulents, interspersed with winding paths, a lily pond and colorful shocks of orchids. The gardens, established i
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First Unitarian Church
Low-down and rough around the edges aren’t usually meant as compliments, and they’re not usually applied to a church. But George Percy’s down-to-earth 1888 design for a cathedral in rough-hewn stone was considered appropriate by the progressive Universalists, whose current church c
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
One of Brooklyn’s most picturesque attractions, this 52-acre garden is home to thousands of plants and trees, as well as a Japanese garden where river turtles swim alongside a Shinto shrine. The best time to visit is late April or early May, when the blooming cherry trees (a gift f
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Zuma & Westward Beach
Zuma is easy to find, and thanks to the wide sweep of blonde sand that has been attracting valley kids to the shore since the 1970s, it gets busy on weekends and summer afternoons. But we prefer Westward Beach. That same wide stretch of sand winds south of Zuma and wraps halfway ar
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Kings County Distillery
Set in an 1899 brick building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Kings County Distillery uses New York grain and traditional equipment to create some mighty smooth craft spirits. Come on a tour for a look at the distilling process from grain to bottle, with a bit of a history thrown in
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Nicholas Roerich Museum
This compelling little museum, housed in a three-story townhouse from 1898, is one of the city’s best-kept secrets. It contains more than 200 paintings by the prolific Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich (1874–1947), a Russian-born poet, philosopher and painter. His most remarkable wo
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Mokapu & Ulua Beaches
With the opening of the Andaz Maui, the scene has gotten busier at these two beaches, which are a few steps away from the resort. The lovely Mokapu Beach is behind the Andaz, on the northern side of a small point between the beaches. Snorkelers should head straight for Ulua Beach t
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Havasu Canyon
Havasu Creek tumbles through the Grand Canyon on its way to the Colorado River, creating a series of waterfalls and swimming pools about 10 miles below the rim on the Havasupai Reservation. Note that rain and floods can affect the flow of and access to the falls, and getting to the
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Colorado Railroad Museum
With more than 100 railroad engines, a 500yd looping track, cabooses and rolling stock, as well as paraphernalia and regalia, this is a must-stop for train fanatics touring the region. The stars of the show are the well-restored Galloping Goose railcars (or motors, if you want to g
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