Indiana
The state revs up around the Indy 500 race, but otherwise it's about slow-paced pleasures in corn-stubbled Indiana: pie-eating in Amish Country, meditating in Bloomington's Tibetan temples and admiring the big architecture in small Columbus. The northwest has moody sand dunes to climb, while the south has caves to explore and rivers to canoe. Spooky labyrinths, bluegrass music shrines and a famed, lipstick-kissed gravestone also make appearances in the state.
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- Attraction in IndianapolisIndiana War Memorial
- Attraction in IndianapolisNewfields
- Attraction in IndianapolisChildren's Museum of Indianapolis
- Attraction in IndianapolisKurt Vonnegut Museum & Library
- Attraction in IndianaAtheneum
- Attraction in IndianaGrotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery
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