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  • At the Coastal Discovery Museum in Hilton Head, S.C., an old boat has been turned into a bog garden containing plants indigenous to the low country.

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    Nature beckons on this South Carolina island

    Beyond the resorts and the golf courses lies a completely different Hilton Head. Photo Gallery Available

  • Arlene Marcley runs the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in Greenville, S.C., the player’s home town.

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    Innocence abounds at Shoeless Joe Museum

    Shoeless Joe Jackson came home to Greenville after he and seven others members of the Chicago White Sox were banned for their part in throwing the 1919 World Series. Now the town is a mecca for sports fans who believe he was wronged. Photo Gallery Available

  • The main gallery of the Barnes Foundation collection is a high-ceilinged room with large windows facing south, an exact replica of the room that Dr. Albert Barnes created in Merion, Pa., to house his collection.

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    The zigzag route of Philadelphia’s Barnes art collection

    The approach to the new Barnes Foundation campus in Center City Philadelphia is not a straight line. Visitors to Dr. Albert C. Barnes’ extraordinary art collection first walk by a ticketing pavilion, then past a newly commissioned zigzag sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly. Beyond that is the main building, a subdued rectangle of pale gray limestone bordered by a reflecting pool and a row of red Japanese maple trees. Near the entrance, the path turns left, across paving that bridges the water, suggestive of a protective moat. Then visitors must turn right to enter the building through a pair of heavy, wooden doors. Photo Gallery Available

  • Key West

    Getting in touch with my inner Hemingway

    I was sitting at the Green Parrot Bar, a place I’d heard described as “the definitive Key West saloon,” listening to the tourists seated next to me talk animatedly about coming to Key West every year just to see the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, when one of them stared at my gray beard and went silent.

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    Washington DC: Exploring the art of the capital

    Over the centuries, Washington has evolved from a swampy backwater town to a sophisticated cultural destination. Museums and monumental architecture here are world-class with spacious light-filled galleries and exquisitely curated shows. Dozens of museums, galleries and public art spaces, most free, dot leafy streets and line the National Mall.

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    Folly Beach, South Carolina: Low pressure in the Lowcountry

    Rent a house near the shore and vacation like a native Charlestonian.

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    Baltimore revels in its inspirational charms

    Giant celebrations are planned to mark surviving the mighty British fleet in the War of 1812 — and inspiring our national anthem.

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    In Augusta, home of The Masters, playing like amateurs

    “That’s a good-lookin’ rip,” Matt Flynn called out to his competitor from the 18th hole at the Pendleton King Park course in Augusta, Ga.

  • Two little girls race by a mural on Providenciales.

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    Turks and Caicos Islands are booming

    This tiny group of islands in the West Indies has one of the world's fastest-growing economies, sparked by high-end resorts and a booming real estate market. Photo Gallery Available

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    Ybor City is Tampa's hottest nightspot

    But visitors will still find vestiges of Ybor City's cigar-making heyday and its ethnic social organizations

  • BAHAMAS: Nassau, Paradise Island

    Originally published Sunday, November 13, 2005

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