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America’s Car Museum, Tacoma, Washington

America's Car Museum is a private museum Museum in Tacoma, Washington dedicated to the love of the automobile. Home to the world's largest private car collection and some 500 automobiles right on site it is situated adjacent to the Tacoma Dome, 2012. Most of the cars on display were donated by the family of Harold LeMay as part of...
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Mount Rainer National Park in Washington

Mount Rainier, also known as Mount Tahoma is a 4,392 m tall large active stratovolcano located in the state of Washington. It is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world and the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest located 87 km southeast of Seattle. Getting there involves a 3 to 4 hour drive...
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Seattle Space Needle, with Day and Night panoramas

The Space Needle, an icon of Seattle and a designated historic landmark of the Pacific Northwest. The observation tower in Seattle, Washington at the time of construction in 1961 was the tallest building in the West, surpassing the Smith Tower across town that held that title since 1914. Owned by the space needle corporation, construction started on April 17,...
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Seattle EMP Museum, Galleries and Star Wars and the Power of Costume

The EMP (Experience Music Project) Museum is a non-profit museum located at the Seattle centre adjacent to the iconic Space Needle, it is a rather oddly spaced museum cladded in shiny silver and purple signaling you that this is not any other ordinary building sitting right here in the heart of downtown Seattle. The exterior of the museum is...
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Aviation at Seattle city, the Museum of flight

In addition to the Boeing factory is a prominent aviation museum home to many historic and modern airplanes. Known as the Museum of Flight, the museum, established in 1965 is a private non-profit air and space museum located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field), in the city of Tukwila, just south of Seattle. It...
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Aviation at Seattle city, the Future of flight at Everett Boeing factory

Seattle is known as one the few main aviation hubs of America, particularly the home and Headquarters of one of the most prominent modern aviation powerhouses- the Boeing company. Located at Everett, Washington, the Boeing factory (as known as the Future of flight) is also home to Boeing's assembly plant for the 747, 767, 777 and the new 787....
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The first original Starbucks at 1st & Pike Place Market

The name Starbucks is synonymous to almost anyone in any developed world, but what makes this particular store at Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States more special is that it is the first ever Starbucks in the world. Opened in 1971, the store has kept its early appearance complete with the two tailed mermaid logo and...
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Exploring Seattle City, downtown and Pikes place

I was around visiting the Emerald City over the past week and got an opportunity to explore downtown Seattle there. Seattle is often touted as the silicon valley of America’s North West, being home to Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile, Boeing and the birthplace of Starbucks. Located in Washington state, north of California (and not to be confused with Washington, DC),...
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Busch Gardens Tampa, Florida

Busch Gardens Tampa is one of the few unique “Zoo theme parks” with a world-class theme park complete with renowned rides and roller coasters situated together with a wildlife zoo. Tampa city, with its typical hot, marshy and warm Florida climate are perfect grounds to create a savannah habitat within its 136 hectare compound as a premiere 19th century...
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Disney World Epcot, Florida

Epcot is one of the five theme parks in Walt Disney World Resort at Bay Lake, Orlando, Florida. Owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company Parks and Resorts division. It is one of the few parks the result of the brain child of Walt Disney himself, who coined and developed the idea of a separate park focused as...
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Guggenheim Museum New York City

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, also known as The Guggenheim, is a private art museum in New York City USA. The building is home to the abstract art collection of Solomon since he started collection art dating back since the 1920s. Let’s explore the museum today with a walkthrough. Furthermore, the gallery started out as a private art collection which...
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts Explorations

Let’s check out the Boston Museum fine arts with a day trip. It is an arts museum on Eastern American University city in Boston, Massachusetts. Furthermore, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870, it sits in Boston, MA along 465 Huntington Avenue. The front courtyard entrance of the museum sits the Cyrus Dallin's Appeal to the Great...
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Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston

The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (ICA), USA is a contemporary modern arts museum in Boston city. The building, like the art it exhibits within is a modern one. Let's check out the shining jewel by the bay side with a regular gallery patron visit. Since 2006, the private modern arts museum sits on a quiet corner facing the...
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Boston City freedom trial exploration

Wonderful Boston, there is a lot to see and do here. If it’s not clam chowders, it’s a buzzing university town home to two of the world’s most iconic Ivy-league universities. Let’s check out what’s on in the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. We shall explore what makes Boston City...
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Sailing the Thousand islands Canada

Thousands islands in Canada is an Archipelago between the United States of America and Canada. The Thousand Islands is rather peculiar formation of small islands in the St. Lawrence River. It is located about 140km from the Canadian city of Toronto. A mass of islands Furthermore, the Thousand Islands is made out of a group of more than 1,800 islands. Also,...
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Toronto Canada city explorations and up the CN Tower

Let's do a short exploration of the city of Toronto in Canada. The Canadian city is a rather chill one and is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario and a major Canadian city along Lake Ontario. Toronto is the most populous city in Canada. Also, the city of Toronto is pretty much walkable on foot. The city...
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Niagara Falls soaking adventures

Lets go on a Niagara Falls adventure to check out one of the largest natural flowing waterfalls in the world at the Niagara Falls and visit the nearby Canadian city of Toronto on a day trip. Let’s go! Moreover, a wise move is to do this Niagara 3-day trip from the US east coast. A is great move to consider...
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Watkins Glen State Park Morvalden Ells

Watkins Glen State Park is a national park in New York state, in America. It is known for its iconic natural erosion features, gorges and continental rock features. Here, you can walk through trails with beautiful rock erosion formations on an easy to walk river creek. Let's do a nature walk and catch the sights. Furthermore, Watkins Glen State Park is...
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Corning Museum of Glass, New York

The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York is one dedicated to the art, history and science of glass. The privately-owned museum was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works. Today, it is home to a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some being over 3,500 years old in age. Let's visit the Corning...
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Cedar Point, America’s roller coaster kingdom, Sandusky Ohio

Cedar Point, the name synonymous with almost any theme park goer or thriller seeker around the world. With more than 17 major roller coasters located in the theme park, it is literally America's roller coaster capital, spotting the world record for the most number of roller coasters in one park itself. Notable high profile coasters here will include Millennium...
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