Things to do in North America
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Roadtrip America Eastbound
22 days (San Francisco)
by Intrepid
Traverse the States from San Francisco to New York City, Discover some of America's best national parks, Drive through Death Valley, Roll dice in Las Vegas, Be…Not LP reviewed
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Arneson River Theater
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Arch Creek Park
This compact-and-cute park, located near Oleta River, encompasses a cozy habitat of tropical hardwood species that surrounds a pretty, natural limestone bridge. Naturalists can lead you on kid-friendly ecotours of the area, which includes a lovely butterfly garden, or visitors can peruse a small but well-stocked museum of Native American and pioneer artifacts. Call ahead to book into ghost tours (also fun for the kids), held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The park is just off North Biscayne Blvd, 7 miles north of the Design District.
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Antique & Collectible Market
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Anderson Fair
A legendary stop on the folk-music circuit since the 1960s, this is one of the oldest continuously operating original-music venues in the US.
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Amway Center
The Orlando Magic National Basketball Association team and the Orlando Predators Arena Football League team both play at the Amway Center.
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American Airlines Arena
Just north of the park, and resembling a massive spaceship that perpetually hovers at the edge of Biscayne Bay, this arena has been the home of the Miami Heat basketball team since 2000. The Waterfront Theater, Florida's largest, is housed inside; throughout the year it hosts concerts, Broadway performances and the like. A giant airplane is painted on top of the arena; you may spot it (it looks like the shadow of a plane from afar) when you fly out of the city, or if you're Superman.
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AMC Downtown Disney 24
At this massive Cineplex several screens offer Fork and Screen theater, where you can order meals and have them delivered to your seat through a personal call button at your seat. The bar sells beer, wine and cocktails to take into the flick, and the Cinema Suites option, for guests 21 and over, includes luxury recliner seats.
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Allen's Landing Park
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Alchemist
This high-end boutique eschews bling and snootiness for friendly attitude, minimalism and simply beautiful clothes – standout labels include Zara and Proenza Schouler. Has another location on the 5th floor of the 1111 Lincoln Rd garage
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Alamo Plaza Attractions
Time to throw the kids a bone? After touring historical sites all day, you can reward them with a visit to this teen-friendly trio: Ripley's Haunted Adventure, Guinness World Records Museum and Tomb Rider 3D. One admission gets you into the haunted house, museum of oddities and theme-park-style ride, or you can pay a reduced admission if you only have time for one or two. It's a little cheesy, and definitely touristy, but a good antidote to slogging around the missions all day.
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Alamo Ghost Hunt
This more affordable ghost tour leaves on foot from the north wall of Ripley's Believe It or Not. Don't expect anything too serious; the jokes themselves can be kind of scary.
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Alamo
The folks who valiantly fought for Texas' independence from Mexico would never be able to imagine the Alamo as it is today, sitting at the heart of San Antonio, surrounded by tacky tourist attractions and having its picture taken every 17 seconds or so.
But the Alamo is more than just a photo op. Go on in and find out why the story of the Alamo can rouse a Texan's sense of state pride like few other things. For many, it's not so much a tourist attraction as a pilgrimage, and you might notice some of the visitors getting downright dewy-eyed at the description of how a few hundred revolutionaries died defending the fort against thousands of Mexican troops.
The main chapel…
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Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
The largest performing-arts center in Florida (and second largest, by area, in the USA) is Miami's beautiful, beloved baby. It is also a major component of Downtown's urban equivalent of a facelift and several regimens of Botox. Designed by Cesar Pelli (the man who brought you Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers), the center has two main components: the Ziff Ballet Opera House and Knight Concert Hall, which span both sides of Biscayne Blvd. The venues are connected by a thin, elegant pedestrian bridge, while inside the theaters there's a sense of ocean and land sculpted by wind; the rounded balconies rise up in spirals that resemble a sliced-open seashell. If you have the…
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AC Fine Art
One our favorite galleries, AC Fine Art specializes in limited editions and originals (!) of masters like Dalí, Picasso, Lautrec, Warhol, Basquiat and Lichtenstein.
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777 International Mall
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1111 Lincoln Rd
The West Side of Lincoln Rd is anchored by what may be the most impressive parking garage you'll ever lay eyes on, a geometric pastiche of sharp angles, winding corridors and incongruous corners that looks like a lucid fantasy dreamed up by Pythagoras after a long night out. In fact, the building was designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, who describe the structure as 'all muscle without cloth'.
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Rogers' Chocolates
This charming, museum-like confectioner has the best ice-cream bars in town but repeat offenders usually spend their time hitting the menu of rich Victoria Creams, one of which is usually enough to substitute for lunch. Flavors range from peppermint to chocolate nut and they're good souvenirs, so long as you don't scoff them all before you get home.
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Our Kids
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Grape Escape
- Oregon, USA
- Activities › Other
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Erath Winery
- Oregon, USA
- Activities › Other
In the Dundee Hills AVA, which boasts rich red soil and the first grapes in the region, is this topnotch winery with a good pinot noir.
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Doug Fir
Paul Bunyan meets the Jetsons at this ultra-trendy venue that has transformed the LoBu (lower Burnside) neighborhood from seedy to slick. Doug Fir books edgy, hard-to-get talent, drawing crowds from tattooed youth to suburban yuppies. The restaurant (open 21 hours a day) is good; located next to their rock-star quality Jupiter Hotel.
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US Naval Academy
Annapolis Harbor has been home of the US Naval Academy since 1845. The lovely Navy Campus is northwest of the Annapolis historic district; enter via Gate 1 (at the intersection of King George, East and Randall Sts) and head to the US Naval Academy Armel Leftwich Visitors Center, which features a film, some exhibits and guided tours. Preble Hall contains the US Naval Academy Museum (410-293-8687; www.usna.edu/museum; 118 Maryland Ave, Annapolis; tours adult/child $9/7; 9am-3pm Mar-Dec, to 4pm Jan & Feb, tours 10am-3pm Mon-Sat, 12:30-3pm Sun), which has lots of artifacts, including remnants of the famed battleship USS Maine.
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Kiva
An exceptional natural-food grocery store is The Kiva.
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Beanery
Warm, casual space with vaulted ceilings and hosting a great organic coffeehouse. Enter through the alley in back.
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US Naval Academy Museum
Preble Hall contains the US Naval Academy Museum with lots of artifacts, including remnants of the famed battleship USS Maine.
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