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Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum
The Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum is ideally located on the south shore of Lake Hood, the world's busiest floatplane lake. It's a tribute to Alaska's colorful bush pilots and their faithful planes - housed inside are 25 planes along with historic photos and displays of pilots' achievements, from the first flight to Fairbanks (1913) to the early history of Alaska Airlines.
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Alaska Native Heritage Center
The Alaska Native Heritage Center is spread over 26 acres, and has a theater and exhibition space devoted to the history, lifestyle and arts of Native Alaskans. In open studios, artists carve baleen or sew skin-boats, and surrounding a small lake in the center are five replica village settings - Athabascan, Yupik, Inupiat, Aleut and Tlingit/Haida. Please excuse the dust.
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Alaska Wild Berry Products
The kids will love Alaska Wild Berry Products. Inside the sprawling gift shop is a chocolate waterfall; outside there's a short nature trail that leads to a handful of reindeer that kids can feed and pet.
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Alaska Zoo
The unique wildlife of the Arctic is on display at the Alaska Zoo, the only zoo in North America that specializes in northern animals, including three species of Alaskan bears, snow leopards, Amur tigers and Tibetan yaks.
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Anchorage Museum of History & Art
This already impressive museum, a showcase for the state's history, art and indigenous culture, is undergoing a total renovation that will almost double its size when it's finished in 2009. It will have glass walls housing exhibits, large windows framing views of Anchorage and an observation area where visitors can gaze at the Alaska Range.
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Delaney Park
If you're not ready to be face-to-face with the grizzly wilds, grab a latte and stroll over to this city park, known locally as the 'Park Strip'. The greenbelt is a good place for a lie-down on a warm afternoon.
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Earthquake Park
The gargantuan shaker of 1964 caused, among other things, 130ac (53ha) of land on the city's west side to slip 2000ft (610m) seaward. Part of that slipped strip was a neighbourhood that suffered 75 demolished homes and three deaths. The other end, fortunately undeveloped at the time, is today the site of Earthquake Park.
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Saturday Market
The Saturday Market is actually open on both Saturday and Sunday. Head to it for live music, cheap food and great souvenirs from birch steins to birch syrup.
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