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Gustavus
About 9 miles from Bartlett Cove is the small settlement of Gustavus, an interesting backcountry community. The towns 400 citizens include a mix of professional people - doctors, lawyers, former government workers and artists - who decided to drop out of the rat race and live on th
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GLBT History Museum
Americas first gay-history museum cobbles ephemera from the community – Harvey Milks campaign literature, matchbooks from long-gone bathhouses, photographs of early activists – together with harder-hitting installations that focus on various aspects of queer history, incorporating
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Dunsmuir City Park & Botanical Gardens
As you follow winding Dunsmuir Ave north over the freeway, look for this park with its local native gardens and a vintage steam engine in front. A forest path from the riverside gardens leads to a small waterfall, but Mossbrae Falls are the larger and more spectacular of Dunsmuir’s
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Cooper
Part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, this house of culture is the only museum in the country that’s dedicated to both historic and contemporary design. The collection is housed in the 64-room mansion built by billionaire Andrew Carnegie in 1901.The 210,000-piece c
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
If the Four Corners region has whetted your appetite for Colorado’s splendors, head to the elusive Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Here a narrow gash above the Gunnison River leads down a 2000ft-deep chasm that’s as eerie as it is spectacular. The 6-mile South Rim Rd has11 overlooks
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Baker Lake & Lake Shannon
Just north of Concrete are two reservoirs formed by a pair of dams on the Baker River. Washingtons largest colony of nesting osprey is found at Lake Shannon. Baker Lake is a popular place to launch a boat and go fishing for kokanee salmon or rainbow trout. There are also several hi
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Art Galleries
You cant miss the Field Gallery , a field of large white sculptures by local artist Tom Maley (1911–2000) that playfully pose while tourists mill around them. Theres an indoor gallery, too, with works by artists of local and national renown. Master glassblowers turn sand into color
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Pacific Aviation Museum
This military aircraft museum covers WWII through the US conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. The first aircraft hangar has been outfitted with exhibits on the Pearl Harbor attack, the Doolittle Raid on mainland Japan in 1942 and the pivotal Battle of Midway, when the tides of WWII in t
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Craigville Beach
Looking for a warm-water swim? Craigville, like other south-side beaches, has much warmer water than those on the north side of the Cape. This mile-long stretch of sand is a great swimming beach that attracts a college crowd. With 450 parking spaces, the most of any Barnstable tow
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Gowanus
To the east of the elevated subway station at Smith–9th Sts, in an area surrounded by former industrial blocks, is the Gowanus Canal. Despite its toxic status, the area is home to a number of artist studios and frequently attracts intrepid urban explorers in search of moody (if not
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
Rawlings (1896–1953) was the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Yearling, a coming-of-age story set in what’s now Ocala National Forest. Her former Cracker-style home is open for tours on the hour (except noon). You can stroll the orange groves, farmhouse and barn on yo
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Sing Lee Alley
Heading south, Harbor Way passes Middle Boat Harbor and turns into Sing Lee Alley. This was the center of old Petersburg, and much of the street is built on pilings over Hammer Slough. On the alley, Sons of Norway Hall is the large white building with the colorful rosemaling built
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Hospital Rock
The Potwisha people, a band of Monache (also known as Western Mono), originally lived here. When the first white settler, Hale Tharp, arrived in 1858, this site was home to about 500 villagers and had been inhabited for five centuries. Pictographs (rock paintings) and grinding hole
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Hawaiian Railway
For half a century from 1890 to 1940 a railroad carried sugarcane and passengers from Honolulu all the way around the coast through to Kahuku. The railway closed and the tracks were torn up after WWII and the automobile boom in Hawaii. Thanks to the historical society, trains run a
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Asia Society & Museum
Founded in 1956 by John D Rockefeller (an avid collector of Asian Art), this cultural center hosts fascinating exhibits (pre-Revolutionary art of Iran, retrospectives of leading Chinese artists, block prints of Edo-era Japan), as well as Jain sculptures and Nepalese Buddhist painti
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Prospect Park
The creators of the 585-acre Prospect Park – Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux – considered this an improvement on their other New York project, Central Park. Created in 1866, Prospect Park has many of the same features. It’s gorgeous, with a long meadow running along the west
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Prudential Center Skywalk Observatory
Technically called the Shops at Prudential Center, this landmark Boston building is not much more than a fancy shopping mall. But it does provide a bird’s-eye view of Boston from its 50th-floor skywalk. Completely enclosed by glass, the skywalk offers spectacular 360-degree views o
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Edwin Carter Discovery Center
This award-winning museum sheds light on a pioneer lured west by the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush in 1858. He reached the Blue River valley in 1860. An original environmentalist, he noticed the impact of mining on wildlife early on, documenting genetic deformities (such as two-headed anim
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Japan Society
Elegant exhibitions of both traditional and contemporary Japanese art, textiles and design are the main draw at this calming cultural center, complete with indoor gardens and water features. Its theater hosts a range of films and dance and theatrical performances, while those wanti
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Walsenburg Mining Museum
This is really the only reason to stop in Walsenberg on the way to La Veta. Set in the old jailhouse (built in 1896), it’s a monument to the struggle for labor laws in the Colorado mining industry, in the days leading up to the 1913 Ludlow Massacre. That’s when Mother Jones was hel
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