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81. Montreal Botanical Garden
A 75-hectare botanical garden founded in 1931 beside the Olympic Park, with Chinese, Japanese and First Nations gardens, year-round greenhouses and the Insectarium.
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A 75-hectare botanical garden founded in 1931 beside the Olympic Park, with Chinese, Japanese and First Nations gardens, year-round greenhouses and the Insectarium.
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Boston's oldest surviving church building, begun in 1723, where two lanterns were hung in the steeple on 18 April 1775 to signal the movement of British troops.
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A sheltered public beach on the northern arm of the Hotel Zone, facing the Bahía de Mujeres, with shallow, calm water suited to children.
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Science World fills the geodesic dome built for Expo 86 at the east end of False Creek, with hands-on galleries, live science shows and an OMNIMAX theatre.
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Skydeck Chicago is the 103rd-floor observation deck of Willis Tower, around 412 metres up, where glass boxes called The Ledge project out over Wacker Drive.
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The Smithsonian's natural history museum on the Mall, known for the Hope Diamond, its dinosaur hall, the Sant Ocean Hall and a live insect zoo.
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A Catholic cemetery founded in 1789 just outside the French Quarter, with above-ground tombs including the crypt linked to Marie Laveau; visits are by guided tour only.
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The Bass is Miami Beach's contemporary art museum in Collins Park, with changing exhibitions, a café and free entry for local residents and on set days.
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Free contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in Downtown LA, home to Eli and Edythe Broad's collection of postwar and contemporary art, including a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room.
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At the south end of Boeing Field, The Museum of Flight displays historic aircraft and spacecraft, including a Concorde, an Air Force One and the first Boeing 747.
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A long-established zoo in Audubon Park, known for its Louisiana Swamp area with white alligators, plus Jaguar Jungle, an African savanna and a summer splash park.
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Mexico's great pilgrimage shrine at the foot of Tepeyac hill, where the 1976 basilica displays the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe beside the older baroque churches.
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Opened in 1986 with help from Suzhou garden experts, this Chinatown garden was the first Chinese garden built outside Asia, with a koi pond, rock mountain and free jasmine tea.
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The Exploratorium is a hands-on science and art museum on Pier 15, with hundreds of interactive exhibits and adults-only After Dark evenings on Thursdays.
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Living museum in the former 1976 Olympic velodrome that recreates five ecosystems of the Americas, from a tropical rainforest to the sub-Antarctic islands.
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A large hands-on science museum built across the Charles River Dam, with the Hayden Planetarium, a domed Omni theatre and the Theater of Electricity's giant Van de Graaff generator.
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Twin reflecting pools mark the footprints of the original towers at the World Trade Center, with an underground museum telling the story of 11 September 2001.
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Navy Pier stretches 3,300 feet into Lake Michigan from Streeterville, with the Centennial Wheel, a children's museum, a theatre, cruises and free events throughout the year.
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A free public beach at Punta Cancún, reached by an alley between Coco Bongo and Mandala Beach, with the Hotel Zone's nightlife strip a few steps away.
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On the Elliott Bay waterfront, the Seattle Aquarium covers Pier 59, Pier 60 and the Ocean Pavilion, with sea otters, seals and a large tropical reef habitat.
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