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Allegheny County Courthouse
Here's where you'll find the Allegheny County Courthouse, an impressive 19th-century Romanesque stone building that fills two city blocks and was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.
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Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum, celebrates Pittsburgh's coolest native son, who became famous for his pop art, avant-garde movies, celebrity connections and Velvet Underground spectaculars. Exhibits include the classic Campbell's soup cans and celebrity portraits, while the museum's theater hosts frequent film screenings and quirky performers.
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Carnegie Museums
Near the University are two Carnegie Museums - the Carnegie Museum of Art, with terrific exhibits of architecture, impressionist, post-impressionist and modern American paintings; and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, featuring a complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton and exhibits on Pennsylvania geology and Inuit prehistory.
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Carnegie Science Center
Carnegie Science Center, great for kids, is a cut above the average hands-on science museum, with innovative exhibits on subjects from outer space to candy.
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Cathedral of Learning
The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are here, and the surrounding streets are packed with cheap eateries, cafés, shops and student homes. Rising up from the center of the U Pitt campus is the soaring Cathedral of Learning, a grand, 42-story Gothic tower which, at 535ft, is the second-tallest education building in the world.
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Fort Pitt Museum
At the triangle's tip is Point State Park, which is popular during summer with strollers, runners and loungers. Its renovated Fort Pitt Museum commemorates the historic heritage of the French and Indian War.
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Frick Art & Historical Center
East of Oakland, in Point Breeze, is the wonderful Frick Art & Historical Center, which displays some of Henry Clay Frick's Flemish, French and Italian paintings in its Art Museum; assorted Frickmobiles like a 1914 Rolls Royce in the Car & Carriage Museum; more than five acres of grounds and gardens; and Clayton, the restored 1872 Frick mansion.
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Interior Design District
Formerly gritty Lawrenceville has recently become the city's Interior Design District, comprising the stretch on and around Butler Street from 16th to 62nd Sts. It's a long and spotty strip of shops, galleries, studios, bars and eateries that's on every hipster's radar, and runs into the slowly gentrifying Garfield neighborhood, a good place for cheap ethnic eats.
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Monongahela Incline
The South Side, bursting with shops, eateries, bars and cool characters, is a great place for strolling. To see it from above, ride the Monongahela Incline. The historic funicular railroads that run up and down Mt Washington's steep slopes and afford great city views (and along which a young Jennifer Beals rode her bicycle in the classic '80s film Flashdance ). You can also try the Duquesne Incline (www.incline.pghfree.net).
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National Aviary
The National Aviary is a treat, with more than 600 exotic and endangered birds, many of which fly freely above you in high-ceilinged, climate-controlled aviaries.
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Pittsburgh Children's Museum
The Pittsburgh Children's Museum features a climbable space sculpture, exhibits about Jim Henson and Mister Rogers and some child-friendly Warhol works.
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Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
For pretty much any outdoor pursuit, the best option is the elaborate, 1700-acre system of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, which comprises Schenley Park (with a public swimming pool and golf course), Highland Park (with swimming pool, tennis courts and bicycling track), Riverview Park (sporting ball fields and horseback riding trails) and Frick Park (with hiking trails, clay courts and a bowling green), all with beautiful running, biking and blading trails.
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Sandcastle Waterpark
Folks with kids to entertain might want to seek out the Sandcastle Waterpark, Pittsburgh's water theme park. It features the Mon Tsunami tidal wave pool, Thunder Run inner-tube river and Boardwalk Blasters shotgun slides.
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Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center
The nicely remodeled brick warehouse that is the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center offers a good take on the region's past, with exhibits on the French and Indian War, early settlers, immigrants, steel and the glass industry.
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Station Square
At the start of the Duquesne Incline is Station Square, an over-hyped group of beautiful, renovated railway buildings that now comprise what is essentially a big ol' mall.
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Temple Sinai
Squirrel Hill is home to Pittsburgh's large Jewish population, and features the city's best kosher eateries, butchers and Judaica shops. Temple Sinai is a synagogue that's housed in the architecturally stunning Elizabethan-style former mansion of John Worthington.
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