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2nd Street District
2nd Street District The 2nd Street District is a new area of Austin that includes a range of trendy retail stores, cool coffee shops, restaurants, wine bars, and urban living spaces. The motto for the area is “Where Texas Warmth Meets Austin Cool.” There are approximately 50 specialty shops, servi
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Mardi Gras World
Mardi Gras World Step behind the scenes for the United States’ biggest and most celebrated Mardi Gras celebration at the New Orleans Mardi Gras World warehouse and event center. Located in the Central Business District, Mardi Gras World takes you on an inside tour of the workshop where artisans de
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Lands End
Lands End Situated on a rocky and windswept point at the tip of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area lies the beautiful Lands End. With great views of the Bay and the magnificent Golden Gate, this park-within-a-park offers those who visit its dusty trails an unparalleled experience unlike any
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Coachella Valley Preserve
Coachella Valley Preserve The endangered fringe-toed lizard is given room to roam at the Coachella Valley Preserve, which was specifically designed to protect these desert creatures. Guided hikes through the preserves’ sand dunes and rocky escarpments are led by knowledgeable naturalists who can s
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Snake River
Snake River Rising in the mountains of the Continental Divide near Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park, Snake River is one of the longer rivers in North America and was created by a volcanic hotspot which today sits under bubbling Yellowstone. Once known as the Lewis River, the name Snake River ac
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Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens On the morning of May 18th, 1980, the largest terrestrial landslide in recorded history punched a 1300 foot hole in the side of Mount St. Helens and rained fire and ash at a speed of 300 mph down the mountainside. 30 years later, this amazing display of Mother Earth’s power is sti
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Venice Canals and Walkways
Venice Canals and Walkways In 1905, tobacco millionaire and real estate developer Abbot Kinney sought to simulate the romantic feel of Venice, Italy in America by creating the beach resort town of Venice just south-west of Santa Monica. Kinney wrangled the areas marshland into a series of canals t
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Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)
Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) The ideal destination for curious people of all ages, the Museum of Science & Industry offers numerous exhibits and attractions designed to pique ones scientific interest. With over 450 hands-on attractions, MOSI offers a unique interactive experience to its vis
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Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens Palm Springs’ Living Desert Zoo & Gardens presents animals and botanical gardens in the Sonoran Desert.Focusing on flora and fauna from desert landscapes around the world, the living desert includes replicated gardens from Africa and North America.The Mojave Garden repl
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San Juan Islands
San Juan Islands As one of the most beloved holiday destination for northwestern Americans, the reputation of the San Juan Islands precedes them. The archipelago consists of 172 islands, four of which are inhabited, serviced and ferry-served: Orcas Island, San Juan Island, Lopez Island and Shaw Is
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Austin Convention Center
Austin Convention Center The state-of-the-art Austin Convention Center offers almost a quarter-million contiguous square footage and column-free exhibit space, making it one of the most exciting and far-reaching event center floor plans in the whole United States. Over 54 meeting rooms and two bal
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San Francisco Bay Bridge
San Francisco Bay Bridge Though it doesn’t often get the attention of its famous sibling, the Golden Gate, the San Francisco Bay Bridge is spectacular in its own right. Once the largest and most expensive bridge of its time, in 75 years the Bay Bridge has proved critics wrong – the dream of connec
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The Neon Museum
The Neon Museum Many Las Vegas visitors lament that the city has no history, but that’s not quite the truth. Though some buildings have been imploded and several hotels and businesses have closed over the years, many of the neon signs that branded these buildings have ended up in the Neon Museum,
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Portage Glacier
Portage Glacier If you’re staying in Anchorage and reading about the glaciers that are so much a part of Alaska, then head to Portage Glacier, just a little more than an hour outside of the city. Portage Glacier is truly worth the drive. Once you’re here, you can watch for huge chunks of ice to br
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Firehole River
Firehole River Like many other places in Yellowstone, the Firehole River is a scenic spot that lives up to its dramatic name. As it meanders north for 21 miles to join with the Madison River, the Firehole acts as a drainage basin for many of the park’s geothermal features. In collecting all
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Maui Tropical Plantation
Maui Tropical Plantation For a look at what Mauis agricultural life once looked like, visit Maui Tropical Plantation – a sort of plantation theme park thats also still a working plantation.Maui Tropical Plantation covers about 60 acres, and was originally designed to turn the islands rich agricult
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Magic Island
Magic Island A sandy peninsula extending into Honolulu Harbor, Magic Island—more rarely referred by its official name Aina Moana—affords rare right-off-the-beach green space in downtown Honolulu thanks to a failed 1964 development project. Today, families gather on weekends to barbeque alongside i
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Ford Foundation Building
Ford Foundation Building This boxy, modern 12-story office building in Midtown was designed in 1963 by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche and engineer John Dinkeloo; the duo’s local projects include renovations to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History. Com
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Daily News Building
Daily News Building Soaring 476 feet and 37 stories over Midtown, this 1930 Art Deco skyscraper was originally built for The New York Daily News, a still-popular tabloid newspaper which made its headquarters here until 1995. Architecturally significant for its trendsetting vertical stripes of wind
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Del Mar
Del Mar The ritziest of San Diego’s seaside suburbs, with a Tudor aesthetic that somehow doesn’t feel out of place, Del Mar boasts good restaurants, unique galleries, high-end boutiques, and a horse-racing track, which is also the site of the annual county fair. Downtown Del Mar, sometimes called
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