The Bell was ordered in 1751 & is one of the most prominent symbols of the Revolutionary War. In 1752 to the dismay of onlookers the bell cracked during testing. Over 2 million visitors come each year
Opened on October 1, 2009, the museum features the life and legacy of Walt Disney. The museum retrofitted and expanded three existing historic buildings on the Presidio’s Main Post.
It's the largest garden of its kind in the US. Offering gorgeous views & a continually changing array of plants it includes several pavilions built using traditional Chinese materials & techniques.
Browse through over 23,000 objects that include African, Asian, European, Oceanic, Aboriginal, among other international art. The museum hosts one of the top 5 US Japanese & Korean Art collections.
The Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department offers guided nature, adventure, and historic tours involving biking, canoeing, snorkeling, hiking, and bird-watching all over the city.
First erected in Segovia, Spain. Centuries later, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst purchased and brought them to America in pieces. Used as a backdrop for weddings, movies, and commercials.
Includes European paintings from the 15th through the early 20th centuries, with special emphasis on northern European art of the Renaissance and baroque periods, including Dutch and Flemish masters.
Ongoing exhibit of jazz photographer Herman Leonard's fantastic black-and-white photographs of legends such as Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra has been so popular that it hasn't changed in years.
Themes vary at the whim of the artist and the gallery owner. You might see a retrospective on baseball or a series of "shadow" photographs in which the images look like faint scraps of ghosts.
Cyrus McCormick, born in 1809, invented the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat in 1831 & played a huge role in settling the Midwest. He is buried here.
Takes visitors around Pioneer Square above ground and also to a hidden Seattle that now lies underground. About 25 square blocks of Pioneer Square have hollow spaces under the sidewalks.
Venerated as one of the oldest museums in Texas,it offers visitors a lovingly preserved glimpse into early Texas history and into the life of a creative and spirited woman who lived life passionately.
Founded by seven visionary women who were members of a 1970's environmental group called "Now or Never". This group was established to preserve a natural area and use it as an outdoor laboratory.
Features realistic life-size dinosaur replicas that show skin and color variations to give a better understanding as to how they looked when alive.The statues range in size from 6 to 40-feet long.
With more than 300 animals across more than 100 different species, Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary is a private, non-profit zoo rescuing animals and serving the Austin community.
This location was once home to the legendary Dunes hotel which were demolished in 1993. When Bellagio opened in 1998, it was the most expensive hotel ever built at a cost of 1.6 billion.
The idea for Mystère started around 1990. It was originally planned for Caesars Palace with a theme based on Greek and Roman mythology. It premiered here at Treasure Island in 1993.
Set in a one million-gallon water capacity theater, no seat is more than 40 feet from the stage. Each cast member must become scuba-certified before performing. "Le Rêve" means "The Dream" in French.
The Mirage was built on the site formerly occupied by the Castaways & the Red Rooster Nite Club. The hotel's distinctive gold windows get their color from actual gold used in the tinting process.
The original plans envisioned this to be the world's tallest freestanding structure. But due to possible inference with the airport, the tower was reduced to the current height 1,149 ft.
Construction began in 1962 and the hotel was inaugurated in 1966. Original owner Jay Sarno called it "Caesars" and not "Caesar's" because he thought of every guest as a Caesar.
When it opened on October 15, 1993, the pyramid was the tallest building on the strip and took 2 years to build at a cost of $375 million.
Originally, the plan was to build the Eiffel Tower to full scale but the airport was too close and the tower had to be shrunk. The scale is approximately 1:2.
When Shoeless Joe Jackson entered this courthouse to address charges that he and his White Sox teammates fixed the 1919 World Series, a little boy supposedly shouted out, "Say it ain't so, Joe."
Arthur Compton lived here until 1945. While working at UChicago, Compton discovered the "Compton Effect" proving that light has both a particle aspect and a wave aspect. He won the Nobel Prize in 1927
Geraldo Rivera believed Al Capone hid a fortune in these basement walls. As America watched, workers blasted through the concrete walls, & found some old bottles. Capone had the last laugh after all.
Al Capone kept his family here in the 1920s, & this was his earliest headquarters. He did at least 1 interview here, wearing a pink apron & cooking spaghetti for the Chicago Herald Examiner in 1927.
Completed in 1924 and once home to the long-gone Miami News; during the 1960s offices at the Miami Freedom Tower processed requests for political asylum during the first wave of Cuban immigration.
Redskins Pro Bowl safety Sean Taylor was recovering here from a knee injury during the 2007 season when an intruder broke in. Taylor was shot in the leg, & after massive blood loss, died the next day.
Joe Namath proclaimed "The Jets will win on Sunday, I guarantee you" at the Miami Touchdown Club, once located here, just days before they met the Baltimore Colts in 1969. Joe lead the Jets to victory
