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Cabrillo National Monument
On the southern tip of Point Loma, you'll find Cabrillo National Monument, offering fine views across the bay to San Diego's downtown. It's also the best place in San Diego to see the gray whale migration (January to March) from land.
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Crystal Pier
Up in Pacific Beach (or PB) the activity spreads further inland, especially along Garnet Ave, with bars, restaurants and vintage clothing stores. At the ocean end of Garnet Ave, Crystal Pier is worth a gander. Built in the 1920s, it's still home to a cluster of rustic cabins built out over the waves.
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Geisel Library
The University of California San Diego's 26,000 lucky students live and study amongst the campus' rolling coastal hills that are covered in fragrant eucalyptus trees. By far its most distinctive structure is the Geisel Library, an upside-down multileveled pyramid of glass and concrete whose namesake, Theodor Geisel, is better known as Dr Seuss, creator of the Cat in the Hat. He and his wife contributed substantially to the library, and there is a collection of his drawings and books on the ground level.
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Hillcrest
Just up from the northwestern corner of Balboa Park, you hit Hillcrest, the heart of Uptown (buses 1, 3 and 25 go to/from downtown along 4th and 5th Aves). The neighborhood began its life in the early 20th century as a modest middle-class suburb. Today, it's San Diego's most bohemian district. University and 5th Aves are lined with coffeehouses, thrift shops and excellent restaurants in all price ranges.
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Old Point Loma Lighthouse
The 1854 Old Point Loma Lighthouse, dramatically built at the top of the hill, was so prone to fog-in that a new, lower lighthouse took over duty 36 years later. On the ocean side of the point, you can drive or walk down to the tide pools to look for anemones, starfish, crabs, limpets and 'dead man's fingers'.
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Presidio Hill
In 1769 Padre JunĂpero Serra and Gaspar de Portolá established the first Spanish settlement in California on Presidio Hill, overlooking the valley of the San Diego River. The walk from Old Town along Mason St rewards you with views of the bay.
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Salk Institute
In 1960 Jonas Salk, the pioneer of polio prevention, founded the Salk Institute for biological and biomedical research. Louis Kahn designed the building, completed in 1965, as a masterpiece of modern architecture, with a classically proportioned plaza made of travertine (aka immature) marble and cubist, mirror-glass laboratory blocks framing a perfect view of the Pacific. Stand on the plaza's east end let your eye follow the 'river of life', representing knowledge, as it 'connects' with the ocean.
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Spruce Street Footbridge
As you head northward toward Hillcrest, detour across the 375ft Spruce Street Footbridge, a 1912 suspension bridge built over a deep canyon between Front and Brant Sts. The nearby Quince Street Bridge, between 4th and 3rd Aves, is a wood-trestle structure built in 1905 and refurbished in 1988.
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