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   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

   A museum on the Lake Erie shore in an I. M. Pei glass pyramid of 1995, sited in Cleveland because the disc jockey Alan Freed popularised the term rock and roll here in the early 1950s. Induction requires twenty-five years since an artist's first record.

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   Cleveland Museum of Art

   More than 61,000 works in the Wade Park district of University Circle, strongest of all in Asian and Egyptian art. The museum opened in 1916 and has kept general admission free ever since; an endowment of around $920 million makes it one of the wealthiest art museums in the country.

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   James A. Garfield Memorial

   The tomb of the assassinated president, begun in 1885 in Lake View Cemetery and dedicated on 30 May 1890. Its round tower mixes Byzantine, Gothic and Romanesque Revival forms; Garfield and his wife Lucretia lie in the crypt, and the balcony looks over the city to Lake Erie.

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   Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

   A zoo of seventy-four hectares in Cleveland, opened in 1882 and among the oldest in the United States. Its RainForest building of 1992 keeps Central American and Southeast Asian species under one glass roof.

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   Cleveland Museum of Natural History

   A natural history museum in University Circle, founded in 1920, whose Lucy cast and the original Haplocanthosaurus and Nanotyrannus fossils are its centrepieces. It also runs a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house and 26,000 hectares of nature preserves.

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   St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral

   A Russian Orthodox cathedral of 1912 in Tremont, built by Carpatho-Rusyn steelworkers with thirteen onion domes for Christ and the apostles. The wedding scenes of The Deer Hunter were filmed in it in 1977.

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   Cleveland Cultural Gardens

   A chain of gardens along Rockefeller Park, begun in 1916, in which each of Cleveland's immigrant communities was given a plot to plant in the manner of its homeland. More than thirty national gardens now run along one parkway.

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   Fountain of Eternal Life

   A monument of 1964 on the downtown Mall to the dead of the Second World War and Korea, showing a figure rising from the flames of war, by Marshall Fredericks. Bronze reliefs around the fountain represent the world's civilisations.

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   David Berger National Memorial

   The smallest unit of the American national park system, a memorial in Beachwood to David Berger, the Cleveland-born Israeli weightlifter killed with ten teammates at the Munich Olympics in 1972. It is a broken sculpture of the Olympic rings.

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    The Flats

    The district on both banks of the Cuyahoga where Cleveland's iron and shipbuilding industry stood, and where the river caught fire in 1969 — an event that helped produce the Clean Water Act. Its warehouses are now bars, venues and offices.

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   A Christmas Story House

   The house in Tremont used for the exterior and some interiors of the 1983 film A Christmas Story, bought at auction in 2004 by a fan who restored the rooms to match the film. The leg lamp is in the window.

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   Public Square

   The 9.5-acre plaza laid out in 1796 as part of Moses Cleaveland's town plat, on the New England model. Terminal Tower, Key Tower and the city's other high-rises face it, along with the Old Stone Church of 1855; it was listed on the National Register in 1975.

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   Euclid Beach Park

   An amusement park on the Lake Erie shore in Collinwood that ran from 1895 to 1969, and which excluded Black visitors — a policy that produced protests and violence in the 1940s. The site is now a lakefront park; its arch and one carousel survive.

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   Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

   A Civil War monument of 1894 on Public Square, honouring the more than nine thousand men of Cuyahoga County who served the Union, whose names are cut into the interior walls. Levi Scofield, a veteran, designed and sculpted it.

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   Cedar Point Shores

   A water park at Sandusky west of Cleveland, opened in 1988 as Soak City, sharing its site and season with the Cedar Point amusement park. Both are on the Lake Erie peninsula.

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   Great Lakes Science Center

   A science centre on the Lake Erie waterfront opened in 1996, with about four hundred hands-on exhibits and an OMNIMAX theatre. The 1925 freighter William G. Mather is berthed alongside as part of the museum.

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   Greater Cleveland Aquarium

   Ohio's only free-standing aquarium, opened in January 2012 inside the old riverside powerhouse in the Flats. Some 70,000 square feet hold 55 exhibits across nine themed zones, ranging from Lake Erie species to a walk-through shark tunnel.

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   Cleveland Mall

   A long civic green laid out from the Group Plan of 1903 by Daniel Burnham, John Carrere and Arnold Brunner, and one of the most complete pieces of City Beautiful planning in the country. Government buildings line three sides of it.

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   Cleveland Botanical Garden

   A botanical garden in University Circle whose glasshouse holds two contrasted habitats — the cloud forest of Costa Rica and the spiny desert of Madagascar — walked through in sequence. It merged with the natural history museum's Holden Arboretum in 2014.

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    Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum

    A transport museum run by the Western Reserve Historical Society, holding about 180 vehicles from a city that built cars — Cleveland was second only to Detroit in the 1900s, home to Winton, Peerless and White. Early aircraft hang above them.

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