A superb, life-size diorama featuring pioneer families, wagons, livestock and wildlife provides the focal point for this 23,000 sq.ft centre, and the exhibition area is no less impressive, with photographs, videos and artifacts telling the story of
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The Rogue River in southwest Oregon offers a wealth of leisure opportunities - from floating to fishing - but did you know it's also a great place to look for placer gold (flecks of gold mixed in stream gravel)? This wayside is one of four
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Founded in 1862 following the discovery of gold, Granite was once home to 5000 people (of whom as many as 3000 were Chinese working supposedly mined out claims). Today it is a must-see stop along the 100 mile Elkhart Drive Scenic Byway, being part ghost town - many of the old, abandoned buildings still cling
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Generations of students passed through the doors of St. Francis School in the six decades from 1936 to 2000. Today the school has relocated to a modern building in Bend and the former schoolrooms are now guest rooms in this unique destination hotel. Other parts of the old school are home to a pub, a restaurant and
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Fort Clark opened as a military installation in 1852 and was home to various units, including, most famously, the Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts, until it was deactivated in 1946. Today it is a private recreation community with hotel rooms
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Head north on Highway 75 out of the resort town of Ketchum and you'll pass by a small store on your left. If you're a movie buff it might look familiar, particularly in winter when it's covered in snow. This was where rodeo rider Bo Decker (Don Murray) wooed Cherie (Marilyn Monroe) when a blizzard hit in the 1956 comic romance Bus Stop.
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The lovely copper-domed building, formally opened in 1901, has served as the Capitol of both Arizona Territory and the State of Arizona State; today it serves as a four story museum dedicated to the history and culture of the state. The best way to appreciate it is on one of the free guided tours; highlights include the
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About 9 miles west of the resort town of Lajitas, keep an eye out to your left for Contrabando, an abandoned film set. One small adobe building "La Casita" is original but all the others were constructed to create a movie location used in a series of almost exclusively forgettable Westerns.
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If you're one of those for whom no trip is complete without an hour or so contemplation of the memorials and headstones of an old graveyard, you're in for a treat here. Not only is Mount Moriah Cemetery the final resting place of James Butler Hickock (Wild Bill Hickock), Calamity Jane and numerous other
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Built between 1916-18 as a memorial to Oregon's pioneers and to provide "a comfort station for the tourist and the travelers" on the Historic Columbia River Highway, Vista House sits atop the Crown Point promontory and provides quite stunning views both up and down the river 733-feet below;
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