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Fountains of Bellagio

The Fountains of Bellagio constitute a choreographed water feature situated on the Las Vegas Strip in front of the Bellagio resort. The installation performs musical fountain displays using a system of jets arrayed across an eight-acre lake.

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• Las Vegas

Universal Epic Universe

Universal Epic Universe is a major theme park at Universal Orlando Resort in Central Florida. It is organized as an immersive destination with distinct themed lands rather than a single uniform ride area.

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• Activity
• Orlando

Disney's Animal Kingdom

Disney's Animal Kingdom is a Walt Disney World theme park built around wildlife, conservation and themed adventure. The Tree of Life on Discovery Island is its central icon, carrying more than 300 carved animals.

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• Entertainment venue
• Orlando

San Francisco cable car system

The San Francisco cable car system is a working municipal transit network and a National Historic Landmark, not a staged sightseeing ride.

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• Activity
• San Francisco

White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Completed in 1800, it stands among the most globally recognised civic landmarks.

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• Historic monument
• Washington

EPCOT

EPCOT is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. The name originally stood for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.

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• Activity
• Orlando

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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• Nature site
• Honolulu

Disney's Hollywood Studios

Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Originally opened as Disney-MGM Studios in 1989, the park celebrates film, television, music, and theater with immersive lands and attractions.

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• Orlando

Kualoa Ranch

Kualoa Ranch is a private nature reserve and working cattle ranch occupying approximately 4,000 acres of coastal and valley land on Windward Oʻahu. The property extends from the flanks of the Koʻolau Range to Kāneʻohe Bay.

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• Honolulu

SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Orlando is a marine-life theme park and entertainment complex in Orlando, Florida. It brings together animal habitats, live presentations, educational themes, and amusement rides, including roller coasters.

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• Activity
• Orlando

Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field is a Major League Baseball stadium on Chicago's North Side, serving as home to the Chicago Cubs since 1914. It holds designation as a National Historic Landmark, recognizing its century-long role in American sports architecture.

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• Entertainment venue
• Chicago

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the official visitor attraction for NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast.

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• Museum
• Orlando

Disney Springs

Disney Springs is Disney's major dining, retail, and entertainment district at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. It operates as a central non-park destination, meaning visitors do not need theme park admission to enter.

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• Orlando

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the United States’ national library, but its Capitol Hill visit is also an encounter with a carefully staged civic interior.

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• Historic monument
• Washington

The Venetian Las Vegas

The Venetian Las Vegas is a major themed resort on the Las Vegas Strip. It replicates Venice, Italy through architectural reproductions including canals, plazas, and landmarks.

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• Las Vegas

Discovery Cove

Discovery Cove is a reservation-only day resort and marine animal encounter attraction in Orlando, Florida. It operates as a premium experience distinct from conventional theme parks, limiting daily attendance to create an intimate environment.

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• Orlando

Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium is a public museum dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics.

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• Museum
• Chicago

Nuuanu Pali Lookout

Nuʻuanu Pali

Nuʻuanu Pali is a section of the Koʻolau mountain range on Oʻahu, Hawaii. The Pali Lookout offers views of the Windward Coast.

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• Viewpoint
• Honolulu

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston. Established in 1636, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

Makapuu Point Lighthouse Trail

Makapuʻu Point

Makapuʻu Point is the easternmost point of the island of Oʻahu in the Hawaiian Islands.

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• Viewpoint
• Honolulu

Zoo Miami

Zoo Miami is a zoological park located in southern Miami-Dade County. It is recognized as the only tropical zoo in the continental United States.

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• Family attraction
• Miami

Gatorland

Gatorland is a long-running alligator and wildlife attraction in Orlando, Florida. Established as a distinctive Florida experience, it operates independently of the state's major theme parks.

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• Activity
• Orlando

Aquatica Orlando

Aquatica Orlando is a water park operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment in Orlando, Florida. Its South Pacific-inspired setting combines water slides, pools, beaches, lazy rivers, and animal viewing areas.

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• Family attraction
• Orlando

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum occupies historic hangars on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor. The museum preserves and interprets aviation history related to the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and broader Pacific aviation heritage.

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• Museum
• Honolulu

Broadway Theatre District

The Broadway Theatre District is a concentrated zone of commercial theatres in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is the epicentre of professional English-language theatre in the United States.

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• Art and culture venue
• New York

Chinatown

Chinatown in San Francisco is one of the oldest and most established Chinatowns in North America. It emerged during the mid-nineteenth century and remains a nationally important historic district.

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• Historic monument
• San Francisco

Coral Castle Museum

Coral Castle is a limestone sculpture garden in Naranja, unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida. Latvian-American Edward Leedskalnin single-handedly built the structure over nearly three decades, from 1923 until his death in 1951.

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• Museum
• Miami

LEGOLAND Florida Resort

LEGOLAND Florida Resort is a theme park in Winter Haven, approximately 45 minutes southwest of downtown Orlando. The resort targets families with children aged two to twelve and centres on the LEGO building toy brand.

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• Entertainment venue
• Orlando

Shark Reef Aquarium

Shark Reef Aquarium is a separately ticketed aquarium located inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Operated by MGM Resorts International, the facility houses marine life exhibits distinct from the main resort corridor.

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• Family attraction
• Las Vegas

Atomic Museum Vegas

The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas explores the history of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site. The museum presents the scientific, military and social dimensions of atomic testing through objects, documents, photographs and interpretive displays.

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• Museum
• Las Vegas

Coney Island

Coney Island is a seaside amusement district at the southwestern tip of Brooklyn, New York City. It encompasses a public beach, historic boardwalk, and multiple independently operated amusement parks and attractions.

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• New York

Soldier Field

Soldier Field is a historic stadium located on Chicago's lakefront. The venue opened in 1924 and serves as a memorial to American soldiers who have died in wars.

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• Entertainment venue
• Chicago

Pinball Hall of Fame

The Pinball Hall of Fame is a museum dedicated to pinball machines and related arcade amusements. It operates as a nonprofit institution with proceeds directed toward charitable causes.

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• Museum
• Las Vegas

Allegiant Stadium

Allegiant Stadium is a domed stadium located in Paradise, Nevada, near the Las Vegas Strip.

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• Entertainment venue
• Las Vegas

Boston Public Library

The Boston Public Library is a public library system serving Boston, Massachusetts. Its central facility includes the historic McKim Building, a Beaux-Arts structure opened in 1895 and designed by architect Charles Follen McKim.

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• Art and culture venue
• Boston

Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art is an art museum located in Winter Park, a city adjacent to Orlando in Central Florida.

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• Museum
• Orlando

Koko Head

Koko Crater Railway Trail

Koko Head is a prominent tuff cone on the southeastern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu. The landform rises above the Pacific shoreline and forms part of the Koko Head District Park area.

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• Honolulu

Oracle Park

Oracle Park is a Major League Baseball stadium located on the San Francisco waterfront in the South Beach neighbourhood. It serves as the home ballpark of the San Francisco Giants.

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• Entertainment venue
• San Francisco

The Bass Museum of Art

The Bass is a contemporary art museum located in Miami Beach, Florida. It occupies a distinctive Art Deco building originally constructed in the 1930s as a public library.

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• Museum
• Miami

The Grove

The Grove is an outdoor retail and entertainment complex in Los Angeles, California. It operates as a separately managed destination adjacent to the historic Original Farmers Market, with which it shares a location but maintains distinct ownership and management.

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• Market
• Los Angeles

Wynn Las Vegas

Wynn Las Vegas is a luxury resort and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip. The property operates as an independent destination with its own interior environment, distinct from the pedestrian boulevard experience.

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• Las Vegas

Caesars Palace

Caesars Palace is a landmark resort on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Opened in 1966, it is recognized for its Roman Empire theme, marble columns, classical statuary, fountains, casino, entertainment spaces, restaurants, shops, pools, and hotel towers.

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• Las Vegas

Dodger Stadium

Dodger Stadium is a Major League Baseball venue located in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. It serves as the home ballpark of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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• Entertainment venue
• Los Angeles

Kaʻiwa Ridge Trail (Lanikai Pillbox)

The Kaʻiwa Ridge Trail, widely known as the Lanikai Pillbox Trail, is a hiking route on Oahu's windward coast near Kailua. The trail leads to former military observation structures called pillboxes, situated on a ridge above Lanikai.

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• Honolulu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston. Founded in 1861, it is globally recognized for leadership in science, engineering, and technology.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

The Wolfsonian - FIU

The Wolfsonian-FIU is a Miami Beach museum and research centre affiliated with Florida International University. Its exhibitions explore the persuasive power of art and design, especially between 1850 and 1950.

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• Museum
• Miami

Crypto.com Arena

Crypto. com Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Downtown Los Angeles. It serves as the home venue for several professional sports teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA and the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL.

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• Entertainment venue
• Los Angeles

Waimea Valley

Waimea Valley is a cultural and botanical site on Oahu's North Shore. The valley holds significance as a Native Hawaiian place of residence and worship, with archaeological evidence of past habitation.

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• Honolulu

Bellagio

The Bellagio is a landmark resort on the Las Vegas Strip, operated by MGM Resorts International. It opened in 1998 and remains one of the most recognizable properties in the city.

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• Las Vegas

National Archives Museum

The National Archives Museum is a federal institution on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It serves as the public exhibition space of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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• Museum
• Washington

Waimea Bay

Waimea Bay is a prominent beach on Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii. The bay is internationally recognized for its powerful winter surf, which has played a central role in the development of big-wave surfing.

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• Honolulu

Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. Completed in 1930, it briefly held the title of world's tallest building. Its distinctive crown and spire remain iconic elements of the New York City skyline.

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• New York

Empire State Building

The Empire State Building stands at 20 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, and what a visitor buys a ticket for is the observatory inside a working office tower, not the tower itself.

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• Historic monument
• New York

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It occupies a city block at 881 Seventh Avenue, between West 56th and 57th Streets.

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• Activity
• New York

Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets in Midtown Manhattan.

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• Historic monument
• New York

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States, with a collection spanning numerous cultures and historical periods.

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• Museum
• New York

National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History is a Smithsonian museum on Washington’s National Mall dedicated to understanding the natural world. Its galleries connect human origins, planetary history, biological diversity and the evidence preserved in scientific collections.

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• Museum
• Washington

Tidal Basin

The Tidal Basin is a man-made reservoir in Washington, D.C., created in the early twentieth century as part of the Potomac River reclamation project.

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• Washington

The Wharf

The Wharf is a redeveloped waterfront district along the Washington Channel in Southwest Washington, D.C. It represents a major transformation of the city's southwestern waterfront from industrial and maritime uses into a mixed-use destination.

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• Washington

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, its distinctive spiral rotunda opened in 1959.

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• Museum
• New York

USS Constitution

USS Constitution is the United States Navy’s wooden-hulled frigate known as “Old Ironsides,” preserved afloat in Boston’s Charlestown Navy Yard.

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• Museum
• Boston

Little Italy

Little Italy is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was historically known as a large settlement of Italian immigrants and their descendants.

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• New York

Griffith Observatory

The observatory opened in 1935 through the bequest of Griffith J. Griffith's gift specified that the observatory should make astronomy accessible rather than exclusive. That principle explains why a public telescope, a planetarium and hands-on interpretation coexist here.

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• Museum
• Los Angeles

Wall Street

Wall Street is a famous thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It runs from Broadway to South Street along the East River. The street gained prominence as the center of American finance and remains synonymous with the financial industry.

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• New York

Field Museum of Natural History

Field Museum

Field Museum is Chicago's major natural-history museum, developed from World's Columbian Exposition collections. Its visitor experience is defined by Stanley Field Hall, Máximo, SUE, dinosaurs, evolving life, ancient Americas, Egypt, gems, and cultural collections.

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• Museum
• Chicago

ʻIolani Palace

ʻIolani Palace is the former royal residence of Hawaiʻi’s monarchy and a central landmark of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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• Museum
• Honolulu

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a United States national art museum with a distinctly divided physical identity: the classical West Building, the modern East Building, and the outdoor Sculpture Garden.

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• Museum
• Washington

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a major art museum located in New York City. It occupies a prominent position on the eastern edge of Central Park along Fifth Avenue.

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• Museum
• New York

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a Venetian-style palace museum created from one founder’s intensely personal vision.

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• Museum
• Boston

The Morgan Library & Museum

The Morgan Library & Museum is a cultural institution in New York City centered on the personal library of financier Pierpont Morgan.

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• Museum
• New York

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is a major encyclopaedic museum whose collections range from ancient objects and paintings to decorative arts, textiles, photography, and contemporary work.

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• Museum
• Boston

Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is a hands-on science museum in Hyde Park's former Palace of Fine Arts. Its visitor experience is defined by U-505, the coal mine, Science Storms, transport halls, genetics, farming, and the model railway.

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• Museum
• Chicago

Museum of Modern Art

MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art, known locally as MoMA, is a major art museum in New York City.

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• Museum
• New York

Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago is an encyclopedic art museum beside Grant Park, with historic galleries and the Modern Wing.

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• Museum
• Chicago

J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center is an art museum on a hilltop campus in Los Angeles. The official Getty visitor material describes galleries, architecture, gardens and changing exhibitions as parts of one visit.

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• Museum
• Los Angeles

Freer Gallery of Art

The Freer Gallery of Art is a Smithsonian museum devoted to Asian art and the work of American artist James McNeill Whistler. It forms part of the National Museum of Asian Art beside the Arthur M.

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• Museum
• Washington

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the flagship natural-history museum of Los Angeles County. It is located in Exposition Park, near the University of Southern California campus.

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• Museum
• Los Angeles

National Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum is a Smithsonian institution on Washington’s National Mall devoted to the history and technology of flight.

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• Museum
• Washington

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is a national institution in Washington, DC devoted to documenting the Holocaust and preserving its human meaning through evidence, testimony and remembrance.

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• Museum
• Washington

National Museum of Women in the Arts

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is the world's first major museum dedicated solely to women artists. Located in Washington, D.C., it occupies a historic former Masonic temple building.

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• Museum
• Washington

National Building Museum

The National Building Museum is an architecture and design museum in Washington, D.C., housed in the former Pension Building. Its subject is the built environment: architecture, engineering, design, construction, and urban planning.

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• Museum
• Washington

USS Pampanito

USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Gato-class submarine preserved as a museum ship at San Francisco's Hyde Street Pier. Commissioned in 1943, she completed six war patrols in the Pacific Theater.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

DUMBO

DUMBO is a compact Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. Its name comes from “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.” Cobblestone streets, converted warehouses, galleries, residences, shops, and restaurants create a dense urban setting.

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• New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

LACMA grew from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art and became an independent art museum in the 1960s.

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• Museum
• Los Angeles

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art is a major institution in New York City dedicated to twentieth and twenty-first century American art.

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• Museum
• New York

Arts and Industries Building

The Arts and Industries Building is a historic Smithsonian museum structure located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Constructed in 1881, it was designed to house the United States National Museum's growing collections.

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• Museum
• Washington

Renwick Gallery

The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, located near the White House in Washington, D.C.

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• Museum
• Washington

The Frick Collection

Frick Collection

The Frick Collection is an art museum housed in the former mansion of industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it occupies a Gilded Age residence designed for grand domestic living.

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• Museum
• New York

Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art

Honolulu Museum of Art is Honolulu’s principal public art museum, connecting Hawaiʻi, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.

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• Museum
• Honolulu

National Museum of the American Indian

The National Museum of the American Indian is a Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Its Washington location occupies a distinctive building on the National Mall.

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• Museum
• Washington

Hull House

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is a settlement-house museum located in Chicago, Illinois. It preserves and interprets the history of Hull House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

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• Museum
• Chicago

M. H. de Young Memorial Museum

de Young Museum

The de Young Museum is the leading fine-arts museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

National Museum of African Art

The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution’s museum devoted to the arts of Africa, beneath the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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• Museum
• Washington

Anacostia Community Museum

The Anacostia Community Museum is a Smithsonian Institution museum located in Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood. Established in 1967, it was originally founded as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum with a mission to serve the local community.

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• Museum
• Washington

Newberry Library

Newberry Library is an independent research library in Chicago, founded in 1887 and dedicated to rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other humanities materials.

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• Activity
• Chicago

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hirshhorn Museum

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian Institution's museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., it features a distinctive cylindrical building designed by Gordon Bunshaft.

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• Museum
• Washington

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is a National presidential library and museum located on Columbia Point in Boston. It serves as the official repository for documents and artifacts from the presidency of John F.

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• Museum
• Boston

Old State House

The Old State House is a historic colonial government building in Boston, Massachusetts. Constructed in 1713, it served as the seat of the Massachusetts colonial government and later the state government until 1798.

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• Museum
• Boston