The Schatzkammer Museum in Vienna, Austria is a dream vacation tour for the both the wealthy and the underprivileged. Even the world’s richest people could not ever afford the many treasures therein any more than the pauper as each piece is priceless. Art renderings in portrait (or in precious metal and precious stone) were gathered for centuries through acquisitions by marriage and gifts to the empire. Pretty understandable why it’s called “Schatzkammer” (Schatzkammer is German for treasure vault). This guarded vault chamber was the place where the rulers of old, much as affluent people today, protected their wealth and more expensive items. The Imperial Treasury of the Hapsburg Rulers is located in Hofburg Palace and houses a collection so vast it encompasses over 1000 years of relics! The collection is divided into 2 separate sections; one religious and one secular.
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Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari :: Santa Claus, Indiana
Near I-64 in Santa Claus, Indiana is one of the most popular theme parks in the United States, Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari. This family-owned theme and water park combination offers guests the best of both worlds. Originally opened as Santa Claus Land in 1946, Holiday World was the first themed amusement park in the world opening nine years before Disneyland in California. Today it features themed celebrations of Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July that entertain guests with rides, games, attractions and even live entertainment. It is also well known for its great collection of wooden roller coasters, The Raven, The Legend and The Voyage.
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Lion Country Safari in West Palm Beach, Florida is the largest and most diverse natural wildlife setting of its kind in Florida today. The park’s attractions include over 1200 different wild animals from around the world and they roam free. That is what I said, they roam free! You stay in your automobile and travel the over 4 miles of trails roaming the natural setting around them and you. Picture yourself just behind the glass of you vehicle window as ostriches, lions, zebras, giraffes, rhinos and many more different animals saunter by. The surroundings are idyllic with exotic trees and plants in abundance teeming with wild life from across the globe.
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Opened in 1998 as part of an urban renewal projects in the South of Market area, Zeum, San Francisco’s Children’s Museum is a unique hands-on multimedia arts and technology museum for kids of all ages. The goal of Zeum is to teach how combining creativity, collaboration and communication can inspire new ideas and innovative solutions. Zeum is housed in an amazing 34,000 sq. ft. facility that was designed by acclaimed architect Adele Naude Santos. Each year it teaches and entertains over 250,000 visitors with features like technology studios, interactive activity stations, exhibit galleries, exhibition space and a 200 seat theater. The focus of the museum is on five core arts and media subjects, Animation, Video Production, Sound Production, Performance and Visual Arts.
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The city of Mason, Ohio is home to one of the most popular amusement parks in the United States, Kings Island. The park opened its gates in 1972 as a replacement for Coney Island (not the New York park, a popular park on the Ohio River that was forced to relocate due to flooding) and it is currently the third most visited seasonal theme park in North America behind only one of its sister parks, Cedar Point and Canada’s Wonderland. The park stuffs 364 acres with over 80 rides, shows and attractions including Boomerang Bay, a 15 acre water park. One of Kings Island’s most notable features is the 1/3 scale replica of the Eiffel Tower that greets visitors as they arrive to the park, providing them with a view of the entire park as well as one of the best viewpoints for the parks nightly fireworks display. Kings Island has also won the “Golden Ticket Award” from Amusement Today Magazine for Best Kid’s Area for 9 years in a row.
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