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Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve

Hanauma Bay

Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve is a protected marine embayment on Oahu's southeastern coast. It was formed within a volcanic cone and is managed by the City and County of Honolulu.

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• Honolulu

Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is a vast subtropical wilderness at the southern end of Florida. Sawgrass marshes, mangrove forests, pine flatwoods, hardwood hammocks, and shallow waterways form a landscape shaped by seasonal water movement.

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• Miami

Biscayne National Park

Biscayne National Park protects a predominantly marine landscape south of Miami, where aquamarine water, mangrove shoreline, coral reefs, and offshore islands meet. It includes Biscayne Bay, the coral keys, and part of the Florida Reef.

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• Miami

Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens

The Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens is an indoor horticultural attraction located within the Bellagio Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

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• Las Vegas

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an 83-acre botanical garden in Coral Gables, Florida, serving the Miami metropolitan area.

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• Miami

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park occupies the southern tip of Key Biscayne, a barrier island east of downtown Miami. The park protects approximately 400 acres of coastal landscape including beach, dunes, and mangrove shoreline.

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• Miami

Lincoln Park Conservatory

The Lincoln Park Conservatory is a historic glasshouse greenhouse located within Lincoln Park on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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• Chicago

Valley of Fire State Park

Valley of Fire State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area in Nevada, located approximately fifty miles northeast of Las Vegas. Established in 1934, it is Nevada's oldest state park.

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• Las Vegas

Wekiwa Springs State Park

Wekiwa Springs State Park is a protected natural area in Apopka, northwest of Orlando. Its defining feature is Wekiwa Springs, a first-magnitude spring that feeds the Wekiva River.

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• Orlando

Central Park

Central Park is a public park of 843 acres in the middle of Manhattan, running from 59th Street to 110th Street between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West — about two and a half miles north to south and half…

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• New York

Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island is a National Park Service historic site in San Francisco Bay, best known for the federal penitentiary that operated from 1934 to 1963.

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• San Francisco

National Mall

National Mall is Washington, D.C.’s great civic landscape: a broad east–west sequence of lawns, memorial grounds, museums, reflecting pools, and monumental views. It is best experienced as a connected outdoor route rather than as one enclosed attraction.

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• Washington

Bryant Park

Bryant Park is a public park located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The park occupies a rectangular plot between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue, and between 40th Street and 42nd Street.

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• New York

Grant Park

Grant Park is a large urban park located in the central lakefront area of Chicago, Illinois. It serves as a major public green space connecting several significant cultural and recreational destinations along the shoreline of Lake Michigan.

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• Chicago

Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park is a long urban landscape running from the central city toward Ocean Beach.

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• San Francisco

United States Botanic Garden

The United States Botanic Garden is the national living-plant museum of the United States. Established by Congress in 1820, it stands beside the U.S. Capitol on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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• Washington

Prospect Park

Prospect Park is a major public park in Brooklyn, New York City. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the same landscape architects behind Manhattan's Central Park, it opened to the public in 1867.

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• New York

Union Square

Union Square Park

Union Square Park is a historic public park in Manhattan, New York City. It functions as a significant gathering space at the intersection of Broadway and Fourth Avenue, extending from 14th to 17th Streets.

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• New York

Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center is an independent nonprofit contemporary-art space and community arts hub in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Founded in 1939, the center is one of the city's oldest alternative exhibition spaces.

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• Chicago

Governors Island

Governors Island is a 172-acre island in New York Harbor, situated approximately 800 yards south of Manhattan. The island has served multiple historical functions, including as a military base for the U.S.

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• New York

Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio of San Francisco is a vast former military post turned national park site at the Golden Gate.

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• San Francisco

Boston Public Garden

Boston Public Garden is a living civic landscape in the heart of Boston and the nation’s first public botanical garden, established in 1837.

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• Boston

Griffith Park

Griffith Park is a large municipal park in Los Angeles, California. It covers extensive terrain in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and represents one of the largest urban parks in North America.

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• Los Angeles

Boston Common

Boston Common is a nearly 50-acre public park in the centre of Boston, established in 1634 and managed by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department.

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• Boston

Madison Square and Madison Square Park

Madison Square Park

Madison Square Park is a public park in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City. The park occupies approximately 6.2 acres at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street.

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• New York

Millennium Park

Millennium Park is a civic park built over rail infrastructure at the northwest corner of Grant Park. Its visitor experience is defined by Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, Lurie Garden, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Great Lawn, and BP Bridge.

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• Chicago

High Line

The High Line

The High Line is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues.

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• New York

West Potomac Park

West Potomac Park is a large public park in Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River. It forms part of the broader National Mall and Memorial Parks area.

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• Washington

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Theodore Roosevelt Island is a wooded island memorial in the Potomac River, accessible by footbridge from Virginia. It honors the twenty-sixth President of the United States, known for conservation and progressive reform.

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• Washington

Waikiki Beach

Waikīkī Beach

Waikīkī Beach is Honolulu’s best-known urban beach and the seafront focus of Waikīkī.

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• Honolulu

Arnold Arboretum

Arnold Arboretum is a botanical research institution and public park in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1872, it serves as Harvard University's living collection of woody plants.

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• Boston

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a large public park in the northern part of Queens, New York City. It was created for the 1939 New York World's Fair and later hosted the 1964 World's Fair.

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• New York

United States National Arboretum

U.S. National Arboretum

The United States National Arboretum is a large federal botanical research institution in Washington, D.C. Established by Congress in 1927, it operates under the U.S.

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• Washington

The Battery

Battery Park

The Battery, historically known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. It occupies the site of historic fortifications that once protected the harbor.

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• New York

Fort Tryon Park

Fort Tryon Park is a public park in Upper Manhattan, set on elevated ground above the Hudson River and the New Jersey Palisades. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

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• New York

President's Park

The White House and President's Park

President's Park is a National Park Service landscape in Washington, D.C. encompassing the White House grounds and adjacent public spaces.

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• Washington

Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park is a public park in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. It occupies approximately 9.75 acres and is defined by its iconic Washington Square Arch at the northern edge.

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• New York

Gramercy Park

Gramercy Park is a private, fenced green space in Manhattan’s Gramercy neighborhood. Established in 1831, it is surrounded by historic townhouses and apartment buildings.

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• New York

Waimanalo Beach

Waimānalo Beach is a long sandy shoreline on Oahu’s Windward Coast, set beneath the Koʻolau mountain range. Its broad coastal setting feels quieter and less urban than Waikiki, with residential communities inland and open views across the ocean.

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• Honolulu

Rock Creek Park

Rock Creek Park is a large urban national park in Washington, D.C. Established in 1890, it is one of the oldest federally managed parks in the United States.

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• Washington

Springs Preserve

Las Vegas Springs Preserve

Las Vegas Springs Preserve is a cultural and natural-history campus built around the water source that supported Indigenous presence, early settlement and the growth of Las Vegas.

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• Las Vegas

East Potomac Park

East Potomac Park is a peninsula park in Washington, D.C., extending into the Potomac River south of the Tidal Basin and the National Mall. Water surrounds several sides of the park, giving the landscape a distinctly open waterfront character.

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• Washington

Fort Mason

Fort Mason is a former United States Army post located in San Francisco, California. The National Park Service now manages the site as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is a public green space on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. It is one of the city's oldest parks and carries the name of President Abraham Lincoln.

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• Washington

Little Island @Pier55

Little Island

Little Island at Pier 55 is an artificial island park in the Hudson River, connected to Manhattan's West Side. The structure sits on tulip-shaped concrete pilings rising from the water, creating an elevated landscape above the river.

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• New York

Roosevelt Island Tramway

The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial tramway in New York City. It spans the East River, connecting Roosevelt Island to Manhattan. The system operates as a public transit option alongside the subway.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It occupies land within Prospect Park's vicinity and serves as a cultural and educational institution focused on horticulture, conservation, and environmental education.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is a national memorial honoring the civil rights leader, situated on the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. It features a large granite statue of Dr.

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• Washington

Sailors' Snug Harbor

Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Sailors' Snug Harbor is a historic cultural complex on Staten Island, New York City. Founded in 1801 as a retirement home for aged sailors, it has evolved into the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

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Sewall-Belmont House and Museum

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, now designated as the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, stands as a pivotal landmark in American women's rights history.

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• Washington

Copley Square

Copley Square is a public civic square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

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Hialeah Park Race Track

Hialeah Park Race Track is a historic thoroughbred horse-racing venue in Hialeah, within the Greater Miami area. Its identity rests on three connected features: racing history, Mediterranean Revival architecture, and the flamingo flock associated with the infield lake.

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Pelham Bay Park

Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the Bronx borough of New York City. It occupies a significant portion of the northeastern Bronx, encompassing diverse landscapes including woodland, marshland, and coastal areas along Long Island Sound.

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Lafayette Square

Lafayette Square is a historic public square in Washington, D.C., located directly north of the White House. The seven-acre park forms part of President's Park and has served as a prominent civic space since the early nineteenth century.

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Van Cortlandt Park

Van Cortlandt Park is a major public park in the Bronx borough of New York City. It ranks among the largest parks in the city by land area.

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Humboldt Park

Humboldt (Alexander Von) Park

Humboldt Park is a 207-acre historic public park on Chicago's West Side and the centerpiece of the surrounding neighborhood. The park combines designed landscape, recreation, and Puerto Rican cultural importance.

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Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens

Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens

Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site in Washington, D.C. It preserves marsh, pond, and aquatic garden habitats along the Anacostia River.

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• Washington

Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park

Meridian Hill Park, also called Malcolm X Park, is a formal terraced public park in Washington, D.C. Set on a hillside, it is known for landscape architecture, layered gardens, and a strong neighborhood identity.

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Miami Circle

Miami Circle at Brickell Point

Miami Circle is an archaeological site at Brickell Point, on the southern bank of the Miami River in downtown Miami. The principal feature is a near-perfect circle cut into the limestone bedrock, measuring about 38 feet across.

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Cambridge Common

Cambridge Common is a historic public park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Harvard Square. The common has served as a communal gathering space since the colonial era and holds significance in American Revolutionary history.

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• Boston

Japanese Tea Garden

The Japanese Tea Garden is a historic Japanese landscape garden located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

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San Francisco Botanical Garden

San Francisco Botanical Garden is a botanical garden and arboretum located within Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. It occupies a significant portion of the park's western end.

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Domino Park

Domino Park is a public waterfront park in Brooklyn, New York City. It occupies a portion of the former Domino Sugar refinery site along the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood.

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Mission Dolores Park

Mission Dolores Park is a major urban park in San Francisco's Mission District. It occupies a sloped site that provides celebrated views toward the downtown skyline.

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Harry P. Leu Gardens

Harry P. Leu Gardens is a botanical garden and historic estate north of downtown Orlando. The visit combines planted garden rooms, mature trees, specialist collections, palms, seasonal colour, and the preserved Leu House Museum.

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• Orlando

The Barnacle Historic State Park

The Barnacle Historic State Park is a preserved 1891 bayside house and grounds located in Coconut Grove, Miami. It represents one of the oldest houses in Miami-Dade County still standing in its original location.

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• Miami

Bayfront Park

Bayfront Park is a public civic waterfront park on the eastern edge of Downtown Miami, where open lawns, paved paths and gathering spaces meet Biscayne Bay.

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Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park is a public park on the Brooklyn waterfront, spanning the East River shoreline beneath and adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Lanikai Beach

Lanikai Beach is a residential Windward Oʻahu beach known for pale sand and views toward the Mokulua islets.

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• Honolulu

Constitution Gardens

Constitution Gardens is a landscape area on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It occupies a 50-acre site between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

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Lake Merced

Lake Merced is a large freshwater lake and recreational landscape situated at the southwest edge of San Francisco. The lake and its surrounding parkland form a significant natural amenity within the urban environment, offering open space for residents and visitors.

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Maurice A. Ferré Park

Maurice A. Ferré Park is a bayfront public green space in downtown Miami, Florida.

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Oak Street Beach

Oak Street Beach is a public beach on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Chicago's Near North Side. It sits directly below the Gold Coast neighborhood, one of the city's most affluent residential districts.

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Santa Monica State Beach

Santa Monica State Beach is a major public beach in Los Angeles County, California, operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the City of Santa Monica.

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Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden

Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden on the windward side of O'ahu, Hawaii. Established in 1982, the garden spans approximately 400 acres in the Kane'ohe area.

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Maggie Daley Park

Maggie Daley Park is a large downtown recreation park in Chicago, Illinois. It adjoins Millennium Park and is named in honour of Maggie Daley, the former first lady of Chicago.

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• Chicago

Buena Vista Park

Buena Vista Park is San Francisco’s oldest public park, established in 1867 on a wooded hill between the Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods.

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Castle Island

Castle Island is a 22-acre landmass connected to South Boston by a narrow causeway, forming a peninsula in Boston Harbor.

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Exposition Park

Exposition Park is a public urban park in Los Angeles, California. It functions as a cultural campus containing multiple institutions within its grounds. The park serves as a recreational green space while hosting significant cultural, educational, and sporting venues.

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Northerly Island

Northerly Island is a 91-acre peninsula and former airport site on Chicago's lakefront, converted into a public park and natural area. It extends into Lake Michigan south of the Museum Campus.

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Pershing Square

Pershing Square is a historic public square in downtown Los Angeles, California. Named after General John J. Pershing, it has served as a central gathering place since the late nineteenth century.

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Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

The Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool is a restored Prairie-style pond and landscape located in Chicago's Lincoln Park. Designed by landscape architect Alfred Caldwell in the 1930s, this hidden gem exemplifies the organic architectural philosophy of the Prairie School movement.

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• Chicago

Will Rogers State Historic Park

Will Rogers State Historic Park is a California state historic park preserving the former ranch of Will Rogers, the American humorist, actor, and writer. The property sits in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.

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Chicago Riverwalk

The Chicago Riverwalk is a central riverfront promenade in downtown Chicago. It extends along the south bank of the main stem of the Chicago River, connecting the Lake Michigan shoreline with the confluence of the river's branches.

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Koko Crater Botanical Garden

Koko Crater Botanical Garden is a dryland botanical garden inside the basin of an extinct volcanic tuff cone in East Honolulu. It belongs to the Honolulu Botanical Gardens system and combines plant conservation with an unusual geological setting.

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Liliuokalani Botanical Garden

Lili'uokalani Botanical Garden

Liliʻuokalani Botanical Garden is a compact native-plant garden in Honolulu’s Nuʻuanu valley, beside Nuʻuanu Stream and below the Nuʻuanu Pali.

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Lurie Garden

Lurie Garden is a public garden within Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Named for philanthropist Ann Lurie, it occupies the park’s northwest section and creates a planted refuge among the city’s buildings, public art, and busy pedestrian routes.

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Lyon Arboretum

Lyon Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Harold L. Lyon Arboretum is a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa botanical garden in Mānoa Valley on Oʻahu. It combines tropical plant collections, rainforest habitat, conservation work, horticultural study, and public education.

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Runyon Canyon Park

Runyon Canyon Park is a public park located in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It occupies a canyon area near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and North Fuller Avenue.

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Sandy Beach

Sandy Beach Park is a public beach park on the south-east shore of Oahu, Hawaii, within the city and county of Honolulu. It is known for its powerful shorebreak and is a notable destination for body-surfing.

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Venice Beach

Venice was founded as a seaside resort by Abbot Kinney, and the surviving canals and beachfront spectacle reflect different chapters of that experiment.

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Yerba Buena Gardens

Yerba Buena Gardens is a public garden complex in downtown San Francisco. It occupies a two-block area between Mission and Folsom Streets, adjacent to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Bloomingdale Trail Park

The 606 is an elevated linear park and trail system on Chicago's Northwest Side. Built on a former railway embankment, it runs through several neighborhoods.

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Garfield Park Conservatory

Garfield Park Conservatory is a large historic glasshouse complex on Chicago's West Side. Established in the early twentieth century, it ranks among the largest conservatories in the United States.

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Máximo Gómez Park

Máximo Gómez Park is a public park located in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida. It serves as a significant social gathering space, particularly renowned for its domino-playing culture.

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Fort Funston

Fort Funston is a coastal recreation area in southwestern San Francisco within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It occupies high Pacific bluffs shaped by wind and erosion, with broad ocean views and sandy terrain.

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Gantry Plaza State Park

Gantry Plaza State Park is a public park on the East River waterfront in Long Island City, Queens, New York City. The park occupies a former industrial site where gantry cranes once loaded and unloaded rail car floats and barges.

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Georges Island

Georges Island is a harbor island in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The island is dominated by Fort Warren, a historic military fortification that played significant roles in American coastal defense.

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Jackson Park

Jackson Park is a large public park on Chicago's South Side lakefront. Its landscape is closely associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, whose planning and legacy shaped this part of the city.

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