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Insider Philadelphia: from ballrooms to megamalls in the historically correct city

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Philadelphia, PA, particularly its neighborhoods, has not lost its charm. The city's exciting tourist attractions include the 300-seat Wilma Theater, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of American Art, the Independence Seaport Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Author: Teacher, Janet Bukovinsky
Publisher: American Express Publishing Corporation
Publication Name: Travel & Leisure
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0041-2007
Year: 1995
Description and travel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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City of the hour

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The Clock Museum in Vienna, Austria houses over a thousand types of clocks many of which are centuries old. The museum continues to amaze visitors with its various types of clocks that ranges from the world's smallest pendulum clock to huge stone pendulum weights.

Author: Salter, Mary Jo
Publisher: American Express Publishing Corporation
Publication Name: Travel & Leisure
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0041-2007
Year: 1997
Museums, Art museums, Clocks and watches, Clocks, Watches, Vienna, Austria

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The life of a dead city

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Uxmal is a dead city located 50 miles from Merida on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. It was believed to have existed around A.D. 850 and has become an archaeological site because of the beautiful and impressive architecture of its ancient pyramids.

Author: Grumbach, Doris
Publisher: American Express Publishing Corporation
Publication Name: Travel & Leisure
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0041-2007
Year: 1995
Mexico, Antiquities, Mayas, Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc., Abandoned settlements, Yucatan Peninsula

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