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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s old RainForest has reopened as Primate Forest. We went on a cold November morning for a forest made of light, orangutans with a new outdoor yard, a giant anteater and the zoo’s first indoor play area.
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On the edge of Waco, Texas, a herd of Ice Age Columbian mammoths still lies where it died. We stopped to see the bones in the ground, and the living bears at Baylor.
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Paramount is the last major studio still operating in Hollywood itself. An afternoon on the Melrose Avenue lot, among the soundstages, the water tower, the fake New York streets and one of the most famous gates in film history.
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Crystal Cove is a quiet stretch of the Orange County coast, with bluffs, tide pools and very little development. We stopped here on our last morning in California.
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Oogie Boogie Bash is a separate-ticket Halloween party at Disney California Adventure. Here is what to expect from a night in the park, and whether it is worth the price.
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Jon Batiste played with the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center, the orchestra’s summer home in northeast Ohio. Here is what the night was like and how to plan your own visit.
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Ohio’s only national park sits between Cleveland and Akron, and it rewards going back. Spring bluebells in the woods at Peninsula, a boardwalk at dusk and an August evening at a marsh.
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One is a freight railway turned into a garden. The other is a park standing on concrete tulips in the Hudson. A Sunday morning on the West Side, walking between two of New York’s strangest public spaces.
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Everyone goes to MoMA for the famous walls. We found Warhol’s soup cans, and then a Lithuanian-born artist’s year of empty packaging, which turned out to be the piece we talked about afterwards.
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America’s smallest big national park is one steel monument, a lawn and a tram ride that feels like nothing else. We rode to the top of the Gateway Arch for the view over St. Louis and the Mississippi.
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