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Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks is a prominent hilltop destination in San Francisco, California, offering sweeping views across the city and surrounding Bay Area.

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• Historic monument
• San Francisco

Cloud Gate

Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor, installed in Millennium Park in Chicago.

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• Art and culture venue
• Chicago

Museum of Science

The Museum of Science is a major science museum located in Boston, Massachusetts. It spans the Charles River, situated on a dam between Boston and Cambridge.

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• Museum
• Boston

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the national performing arts center of the United States and Washington, D.C.'s principal classical music venue.

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• Art and culture venue
• Washington

Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum is a museum of Jewish culture, history, and art on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It occupies a former mansion in the Museum Mile district, placing it among several major cultural institutions.

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• Museum
• New York

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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• Nature site
• Washington

Museum of the Moving Image

Museum of the Moving Image is a museum in Astoria, Queens, devoted to film, television, and digital media. It brings together the creative, technical, and cultural sides of moving images in one visit.

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• Museum
• New York

Marina City

Marina City is a mixed-use residential complex in downtown Chicago, Illinois, notable for its distinctive corncob-shaped twin towers.

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• Activity
• Chicago

Freedom Trail

The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile (4-kilometre) marked walking route linking 16 historic sites across central Boston, the North End and Charlestown.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

Koreatown

Koreatown is a dense cultural district in central Los Angeles, California. It is one of the most concentrated Korean-American communities in the United States, though it also encompasses significant Latino and other populations.

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• Historic monument
• Los Angeles

Orpheum Theatre

Orpheum Theatre is a restored 1926 theatre in downtown Los Angeles, known for its historic movie-palace character and continuing live-entertainment programme. Concerts, comedy performances, film screenings and special events bring modern audiences into an early twentieth-century setting.

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• Art and culture venue
• Los Angeles

Old Stone House

The Old Stone House is Georgetown's oldest unchanged building and a National Park Service historic house museum. Located in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood, this preserved structure represents pre-Revolutionary architecture in the capital.

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• Historic monument
• Washington

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary-art museum founded in 1967 near Water Tower Place. Its visitor experience is defined by changing exhibitions, installations, painting, sculpture, media art, performances, commissions, talks, and public spaces.

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• Museum
• Chicago

National Zoological Park

The National Zoological Park is a Smithsonian Institution zoo in Washington, D.C. Established in 1889, it is one of the oldest zoos in the United States.

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• Family attraction
• Washington

Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is Harvard University's public natural-history museum, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston.

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• Museum
• Boston

Legion of Honor

The Legion of Honor is a major European-art museum located in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. It occupies a dramatic coastal setting overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

Andrew Carnegie Mansion

Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Andrew Carnegie Mansion houses the Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a design museum forming part of the Smithsonian Institution. Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the building was constructed as a private residence for industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

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• Museum
• New York

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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• Nature site
• New York

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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• Nature site
• Washington

Charging Bull

The Charging Bull is a bronze sculpture located in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. Created by artist Arturo Di Modica, the artwork depicts a large, aggressive bull in a charging pose, symbolizing financial optimism and prosperity.

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• Art and culture venue
• New York

Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art and human perception at Pier 15 on the Embarcadero. Its galleries are built around experiments that visitors operate, compare and discuss rather than objects viewed from a distance.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums is Harvard University's major public art collection and gallery complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston. The institution brings together three formerly separate museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M.

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• Museum
• Boston

Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York is a history and art museum located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, facing Central Park. Founded in 1923, it occupies a Georgian Colonial Revival building designed to house its collections.

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• Museum
• New York

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston. Founded in 1866, it is one of the oldest museums devoted to anthropology in the world.

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• Museum
• Boston

Queens Museum

The Queens Museum is a public art museum located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York City.

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• Museum
• New York

Bronx Zoo

Bronx Zoo is a zoological park located in the Bronx borough of New York City. It is one of the largest metropolitan zoos in the United States, covering extensive grounds within Bronx Park.

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• Family attraction
• New York

Hollywood Bowl

The Bowl began as a natural amphitheatre used for public performances in the early 1920s, and successive shells transformed the site into one of Los Angeles's defining music venues.

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• Art and culture venue
• Los Angeles

USS Salem

USS Salem is a preserved heavy cruiser museum ship located in Quincy, Massachusetts, near Boston. She is a Des Moines-class cruiser, the third of her class, and served in the United States Navy from 1949 to 1959.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

Copley Square

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

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• Nature site
• Boston

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

Intrepid Museum

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is a military and maritime history museum aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, a National Historic Landmark. The museum complex includes the carrier itself, the submarine USS Growler, and the British Airways Concorde.

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• Museum
• New York

African American Civil War Museum

The African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. tells the story of Black military service and citizenship during the American Civil War era.

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• Museum
• Washington

Granary Burying Ground

The Granary Burying Ground is a historic cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1660, it is the third-oldest cemetery in the city and holds significant importance in American history.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

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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• Nature site
• Miami

Coral Gables Merrick House

Coral Gables Merrick House is a historic residence in Coral Gables, Florida. It was the home of George Merrick, the founder of the City of Coral Gables.

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• Historic monument
• Miami

Los Angeles Theatre

The Los Angeles Theatre is an ornate 1931 movie palace located in the Historic Theatre District of downtown Los Angeles.

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• Historic monument
• Los Angeles

Old City Hall

Old City Hall is a Second Empire architectural landmark on School Street in Boston. It served as the seat of municipal government from 1865 to 1969.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

Point Fermin Light

Point Fermin Lighthouse

Point Fermin Lighthouse is a historic Victorian lighthouse situated at the southern edge of Los Angeles, in the San Pedro neighborhood. Constructed in 1874, it represents one of the surviving examples of 19th-century lighthouse architecture on the California coast.

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• Historic monument
• Los Angeles

Pullman National Historical Park

Pullman National Historical Park preserves the historic Pullman district on Chicago's South Side. Established as a planned industrial community in 1880 by George Pullman for his railroad car manufacturing company, it represents a significant chapter in American industrial history.

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• Historic monument
• Chicago

Hānaiakamālama

Queen Emma Summer Palace

Queen Emma Summer Palace, known locally as Hānaiakamalama, stands in Nuʻuanu Valley as a historic residence with deep ties to Hawaiian royalty.

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• Museum
• Honolulu

California Science Center

The California Science Center is a hands-on science museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. It serves as a public institution dedicated to science education and exploration through interactive exhibits.

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• Museum
• Los Angeles

National Museum of the United States Navy

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

The National Museum of the U.S. Navy is the official museum of the United States Navy, located at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

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• Museum
• Washington

International Spy Museum

The International Spy Museum is a privately funded Washington, D.C. museum devoted to espionage, intelligence work, and the tools of tradecraft. Its galleries place spy equipment, covert methods, codebreaking, surveillance, and intelligence stories into a global historical context.

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• Museum
• Washington

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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• Nature site
• New York

African American Civil War Memorial

The African American Civil War Memorial honours the approximately 179,000 Black soldiers and 19,000 Black sailors who served in the Union Army and Navy during the American Civil War.

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• Historic monument
• Washington

Shedd Aquarium

Shedd Aquarium is a public aquarium on Museum Campus joining freshwater and marine conservation. Its visitor experience is defined by Caribbean Reef, Wild Reef, Polar Play Zone, Abbott Oceanarium, sharks, rays, otters, penguins, and Great Lakes ecology.

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• Family attraction
• Chicago

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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• Nature site
• Washington

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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• Nature site
• New York

Holy Name Cathedral

Holy Name Cathedral is Chicago’s principal Roman Catholic cathedral and the seat of the Archdiocese of Chicago. It is an active place of worship as well as a significant Gothic Revival landmark in the city’s Near North Side.

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• Place of worship
• Chicago

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is a major performing arts venue within the Los Angeles Music Center in downtown Los Angeles.

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• Art and culture venue
• Los Angeles

Vessel

Vessel is a honeycomb-like landmark in Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s far West Side. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, it is formed from an interconnected network of staircases rising above the surrounding plaza.

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• Art and culture venue
• New York

Chicago History Museum

The Chicago History Museum is the principal museum dedicated to the social and civic history of Chicago. Located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, it serves as the city's primary institution for preserving and interpreting its past.

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• Museum
• Chicago

GLBT Historical Society

GLBT History Museum

The GLBT Historical Society Museum is a public history institution in San Francisco's Castro district dedicated to LGBTQ+ history. Operated by the GLBT Historical Society, it serves as a focused museum preserving and presenting queer heritage.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is the former estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, a prominent American socialite and heiress. Located in Washington, D.C., it operates as a museum showcasing her extensive collections of decorative arts.

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• Museum
• Washington

Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II

Japanese American Memorial

The Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II is an outdoor memorial near the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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• Historic monument
• Washington

Sutro Baths

Sutro Baths were a massive public bathhouse complex built in the late 19th century by former San Francisco mayor Adolph Sutro. The ruins now stand as dramatic coastal remnants within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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• Historic monument
• San Francisco

Mission San Francisco de Asis

Mission Dolores Basilica

Mission San Francisco de Asís, commonly known as Mission Dolores, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco.

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• Place of worship
• San Francisco

Trinity Church

Trinity Church is a Richardsonian Romanesque landmark located on Copley Square in Boston. The building represents a significant example of 19th-century American church architecture, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

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• Place of worship
• Boston

Museum of Arts and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design is a contemporary museum at Columbus Circle, on the southwest corner of Central Park.

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• Museum
• New York

Museum of Tolerance

The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles is a Holocaust and human-rights museum in the Pico-Robertson neighbourhood. Its exhibitions connect the history of the Holocaust with wider questions about prejudice, racism, discrimination and social justice.

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• Museum
• Los Angeles

The Walt Disney Family Museum

Walt Disney Family Museum

The Walt Disney Family Museum is a biographical museum in San Francisco’s Presidio, exploring Walt Disney’s life, creative work, and professional achievements.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

Henry B. Clarke House

Clarke House Museum is Chicago's oldest surviving house and a historic house museum in the Prairie Avenue Historic District. Built for Henry B. Clarke, the Greek Revival home preserves an early chapter of Chicago residential architecture.

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• Museum
• Chicago

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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• Nature site
• Chicago

John J. Glessner House

Glessner House Museum

Glessner House is a historic house museum located on Prairie Avenue in Chicago. It exemplifies the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style and holds significant importance in the history of this once-prominent residential district.

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• Museum
• Chicago

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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• Nature site
• Washington

Larz Anderson House

Anderson House

Larz Anderson House is a Gilded Age mansion in Washington, D.C. It serves as the headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati, the nation's oldest patriotic organization, founded in 1783 by officers of the Continental Army.

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• Museum
• 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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• Nature site
• Washington

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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• Nature site
• Miami

Bayview Opera House

Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre

Bayview Opera House is a historic neighbourhood arts centre in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point district and the city’s oldest operating theatre building.

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• Historic monument
• San Francisco

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church building in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighbourhood, on the city’s South Side. The building joins two important stories: the architecture of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, and the development of African American gospel music.

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• Historic monument
• Chicago

Point Vicente Light

Point Vicente Lighthouse

Point Vicente Lighthouse is a historic coastal lighthouse located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California. The lighthouse stands on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and has served as a navigational aid since its establishment.

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• Historic monument
• Los Angeles

The Congress Building

The Congress Building is a historic commercial building in downtown Miami. It belongs to the city's early business-district heritage and helps explain how Miami's urban core developed as commerce expanded.

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• Historic monument
• Miami

Venice Canal Historic District

The Venice Canal Historic District comprises a network of man-made canals in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Developer Abbot Kinney created these canals in 1905 as part of his Venice of America resort, modeling them after Venice, Italy.

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• Historic monument
• Los Angeles

Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery is a historic landscape cemetery in Chicago. Established in 1860, it represents a significant example of the rural cemetery movement in American landscape design.

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• Place of worship
• Chicago

King's Chapel Burying Ground

Kings Chapel Burying Ground

King's Chapel Burying Ground is Boston's oldest cemetery, established in 1630. It sits beside King's Chapel on Tremont Street along the Freedom Trail. The burying ground served as Boston's sole cemetery for three decades before additional burial grounds opened.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

New England Holocaust Memorial

The New England Holocaust Memorial is a public memorial in Boston dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. Located near Faneuil Hall and Union Street in the downtown area, it stands as a prominent civic memorial.

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• Historic monument
• Boston

California African American Museum

The California African American Museum is a state-supported institution in Los Angeles dedicated to African American art, history, and culture.

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• Museum
• Los Angeles

Museum of the African Diaspora

The Museum of the African Diaspora, often called MoAD, is a contemporary art and history museum in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena cultural district.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is a Catholic cathedral in downtown Honolulu. Its origins reach back to the Hawaiian Kingdom era and the establishment of Catholicism in the islands.

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• Place of worship
• Honolulu

Old South Church

Old South Church is a prominent historic church located in Copley Square, Boston. It stands as a significant cultural landmark in the city, recognized for its distinctive architecture and its role in Boston's religious and civic history.

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• Place of worship
• Boston

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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• Nature site
• Boston

Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse

The Mob Museum

The Mob Museum, formally the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, examines organized crime, policing and their effects on American society.

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• Museum
• Las Vegas

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic basilica in Washington, D.C.

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• Place of worship
• Washington

Boston Children's Museum

Boston Children's Museum is a major hands-on children's museum located on the Fort Point waterfront in Boston, Massachusetts.

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• Museum
• 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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• Nature site
• San Francisco

Noguchi Museum

The Noguchi Museum

The Noguchi Museum is a Long Island City museum devoted to the work of Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi founded the institution to present his art in a setting shaped around his ideas about space, light, material, and movement.

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• Museum
• New York

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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• Nature site
• San Francisco

Studio Museum in Harlem

The Studio Museum In Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem is a contemporary art museum dedicated to artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally. Founded in 1968, it serves as a cultural anchor in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan.

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• Museum
• New York

Mount Davidson

Mount Davidson is San Francisco’s highest natural point, rising above the city’s southern neighborhoods. Its summit combines natural hillside terrain, walking trails, and a large concrete cross that serves as a prominent landmark.

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• Viewpoint
• San Francisco

Pier 57

Pier 57 is a historic pier structure on the Hudson River waterfront in Manhattan, New York City. The pier has undergone significant redevelopment and now functions as a mixed-use public space with commercial, cultural, and recreational elements.

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• Activity
• New York

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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• Nature site
• New York

DuSable Museum of African American History

DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center is a museum in Chicago dedicated to the history, art, and culture of African Americans. Founded in 1961, it is the oldest independent institution of its kind in the United States.

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• Museum
• Chicago

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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• Nature site
• San Francisco

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science

Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is a Downtown Miami complex that brings together a science museum, aquarium, and planetarium. Its subjects include biology, physics, technology, space, and South Florida ecology.

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• Museum
• Miami

Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Pritzker Military Museum & Library is a Chicago museum and research library devoted to military history, the citizen soldier, and the relationship between military service and democratic society.

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• Museum
• Chicago

San Francisco Cable Car Museum

Cable Car Powerhouse and Barn

The San Francisco Cable Car Museum occupies an active cable-car powerhouse in Nob Hill. It is both a museum and a working piece of the transport system that moves cable cars through the city.

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• Museum
• San Francisco

First Harrison Gray Otis House

Otis House Museum

First Harrison Gray Otis House is a Federal-era house museum in Boston, associated with lawyer and politician Harrison Gray Otis.

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• Museum
• Boston

Gibson House Museum

Gibson House

The Gibson House Museum is a preserved Back Bay townhouse in Boston. It stands as a historic house museum maintaining its original Victorian-era interior and exterior character.

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• Museum
• Boston

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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• Nature site
• 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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• Nature site
• Miami

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Jay Pritzker Pavilion is a Frank Gehry-designed outdoor concert venue located in Chicago's Millennium Park. It serves as the park's principal performing arts space and is recognized for its distinctive architectural character.

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• Art and culture venue
• Chicago