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New Orleans Square
New Orleans Square has all the charm of the eponymous citys French Quarter but none of the marauding drunks. New Orleans was Walt’s and his wife Lillian’s favorite city, and he paid tribute to it by building this stunning square. Pirates of the Caribbean is the longest ride in Disn
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Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve
A 2000-acre slough (pronounced slew), this park is a great place to experience southwest Floridas flora and fauna. A 1.2-mile boardwalk trail is staffed by volunteers who help explain the epiphytes, cypress knees, migrating birds and nesting alligators youll find. Wildlife-watchers
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Virginia Military Institute
Youll either be impressed or put off by the extreme discipline of the cadets at Virginia Military Institute, the only university to have sent its entire graduating class into combat (plaques to student war dead are touching and ubiquitous). The VMI Museum houses the stuffed carcass
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Tampa Museum of Art
Architect Stanley Saitowitzs dramatically cantilevered museum building appears to float above Curtis Hixon Park overlooking the Hillsborough River. Inside its sculptural shell six galleries house a permanent collection of Greek and Roman antiquities beside contemporary exhibitions
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Small
In Cordova, the standard greeting among locals is ‘Been fishing?’ Unsurprisingly, the harbor is the community’s heart, humming throughout the season as fishers frantically try to meet their quota before the runs are closed. Watching over the hubbub is the Cordova Fisherman’s Memori
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Irish Channel
The name Irish Channel is a bit of a misnomer. Although this historic neighborhood, which borders the Garden Districts, was settled by poor Irish immigrants fleeing the 1840s potato famine, many German and black residents have coexisted here in a truly multicultural gumbo. This is
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Beverly Hills Hotel
Affectionately known as the ‘Pink Palace,’ the Beverly Hills Hotel has served as unofficial hobnobbing headquarters for the industry elite since 1912. In the 1930s, its Polo Lounge was a notorious hangout of Darryl F Zanuck, Spencer Tracy, Will Rogers and other lords of the polo cr
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Grayton Beach State Park
An 1133-acre stretch of marble-colored dunes rolling down to the waters edge, this state parks beauty is genuinely mind-blowing. The park sits nestled against the wealthy but down-to-earth community of Grayton Beach, home to the famed Red Bar and to the quirky Dog Wall – a mural on
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers a completely novel perspective on Cambridge academia: proudly nerdy, but not quite as tweedy as Harvard. A recent frenzy of building has resulted in some of the most architecturally intriguing structures you’ll find on either side of
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Lava Tree State Monument Park
Entering this park, located beneath a tight-knit canopy of (invasive) albizia trees is an otherworldly experience. A short, easy loop trail passes through a tropical vision of Middle Earth, full of ferns, orchids and bamboo, and takes you past unusual ‘lava trees,’ which were creat
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Washington Park
Tame and well-tended Washington Park contains several key attractions within its 400 acres of greenery. The International Rose Test Garden is the centerpiece of Portlands famous rose blooms; there are 400 types on show here, plus great city views. Further uphill is the Japanese Gar
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Newport Bay Ecological Reserve
The brackish water of the Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, where runoff from the San Bernardino Mountains meets the sea, supports more than 200 species of birds. This is one of the few estuaries in Southern California that has been preserved, and it’s an important stopover on the Pa
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Kuʻilioloa Heiau
Along the south side of the bay, Kaneʻilio Point is the site of a terraced-stone platform temple, partly destroyed by the army during WWII, then later reconstructed by local conservationists. The site was used in part as a teaching and blessing place for navigation and fishing. Wai
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Mote Marine Laboratory
The Mote bills itself as a research facility first and aquarium second, and has a large department dedicated to the study of sharks. Exhibits include a preserved giant squid (37ft long when caught) and a dramatic shark tank where you can watch training sessions in action. In a sepa
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Freedom House Museum
For a look at one of the darkest eras of American history, pay a visit to this small museum on Duke St. In the 1830s, this nondescript brick building housed the headquarters of the largest domestic slave-trading company in the country. Among the shackles, iron bars and low ceilings
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Metropolitan Life Tower
Completed in 1909, this 700ft-high clock tower soaring above Madison Square Park’s southeastern corner is the work of Napoleon LeBrun, a Philadelphia-born architect of French stock. Italophiles may feel a certain déjà vu gazing at the tower. After all, LeBrun’s inspiration was Veni
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Cordova Museum
Adjacent to the Cordova Library, this museum is a small, grassroots collection worth seeing. Displays cover local marine life, relics from the town’s early history – including a captivating lighthouse lens – and a three-seater bidarka (kayak) made from spruce pine and 12 sealskins.
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General Sherman Tree
By volume the largest living tree on earth, the massive General Sherman Tree rockets into the sky and waaay out of the camera frame. Pay your respects to this giant, which measures more than 100ft around at it base, via a paved, wheelchair-accessible, 0.5-mile descent from the uppe
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Wakulla Springs State Park
Visit this 6000-acre wildlife sanctuary , just a half-hour’s drive from Tallahassee, and find a peaceful gem with plenty to see. Activities revolve around a cavernously deep and warm natural spring – which remains at a steady and delicious 69˚F year-round and gushes 1.2 billion gal
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Union Stockyards Gate
The gate was once the main entrance to the vast stockyards where millions of cows and hogs met their ends each year. During the 1893 World’s Expo the stockyards were a popular tourist draw, with nearly 10,000 people a day making the trek here to stare, awestruck, as the butchering
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