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Cleveland Botanical Garden
The lovely Cleveland Botanical Garden includes a Costa Rican cloud forest and Madagascan desert exhibits.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
This museum houses an excellent collection of European paintings, as well as African, Asian and American art. There are over 50,000 pieces in its collection, including a wealth of late 20th-century works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Francisco Clemente.
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Great Lakes Science Center
The Great Lakes Science Center, next to the Rock Hall, is a cunning place to entertain your kids while teaching them about science and the environment. It has lots of hands-on exhibits, as well as an Omnimax theatre, and gives a good account of the lakes' environmental troubles.
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HealthSpace Cleveland
While it's geared mostly to kids, HealthSpace Cleveland exhibits appeal to adults, too, especially the 'stress yard' and 'deli wagon' (showing how fast-food ramps up fat and sugar intake). Sneezes, by the way, can reach 100mph, and right-handed people live nine years longer on average than left-handed folks.
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Lake View Cemetery
The eclectic Lake View Cemetery houses an 'outdoor museum' where President Garfield and John Rockefeller rest.
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Quicken Loans Arena
The Cavaliers play basketball at 'The Q,' as it's known, which doubles as an entertainment venue.
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum
Cleveland's top attraction, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum is more than a collection of memorabilia, though it does have Janis Joplin's psychedelic Porsche and Ray Charles' sunglasses. Interactive multimedia exhibits trace the history and social context of rock music and the performers who created it. Why is the museum in Cleveland? Because this is the hometown of Alan Freed, the disk jockey who popularized the term 'rock 'n' roll' in the early 1950s, and because the city lobbied hard and paid big. Be prepared for crowds.
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Science Center
The Great Lakes Science Center gives a good account of the lakes' environmental problems. It's affiliated with the William G Mather maritime museum, which was a freighter but is now a steamship museum. Also berthed nearby on the waterfront is the storied submarine USS Cod, which saw action in WWII.
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Western Reserve Historical Society/Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum
The Western Reserve Historical Society/Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum , houses collections of old cars and planes.
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