Sears Tower

The Sears Tower is a skyscraper in Chicago. It has been the tallest building in North America since 1973, surpassing the World Trade Center, which itself had surpassed the Empire State Building only a year earlier. Commissioned by Sears, Roebuck and Company, it was designed by chief architect Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

5.4.7 Arts Center

The 5.4.7 Arts Center is a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing, make arts accessible to everyone and provide an environment to create and learn through classes, exhibits and performances. Please explore this site to learn more about us.

Blue Hill At Stone Barns

The High Line

The High Line is an abandoned 1.45 mile section of the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, along the lower west side of New York City borough of Manhattan between 34th Street near the Javits Convention Center and Gansevoort Street in the West Village. The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central and has been unused since 1980. It is in a state of disrepair, although the elevated structure is basically sound. Wild grass and plants grow along most of the route.

World Birding Center

The Rio Grande Valley has long been recognized as a world-class birding destination. And now with the creation of the World Birding Center, Texas Parks & Wildlife, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services, and 9 valley communities, plan to expand awareness about this ecological treasure along the state’s southern border. Map showing migration of birds through North and South AmericaThe WBC is a network of nine sites dotted along 120 miles of river road from South Padre Island west to Roma, with habitats ranging from dry chaparral brush and verdant riverside thickets to freshwater marshes and coastal wetlands.

California Academy of Sciences

Cavallo Point—The Lodge at the Golden Gate

Opened on June 23, 2008, with a primo location half a mile north of the Golden Gate Bridge in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Cavallo Point—The Lodge at the Golden Gate has 142 rooms and suites both in modern design and in restored turn-of-the-20th-century Colonial Revival cottages that were once officers’ residences at Fort Baker. The lodge has a Healing Arts Center spa, an organic Tea Bar, a culinary arts program (including “Discovering Artisanal Cheese” and “Olive Oil 101”), creativity and animation classes, triathlon training, many yoga classes, and one of the most dramatic views of that world-famous bridge.Insider Tip: Like the rest of the lodge’s fare, fruits and juices used in cocktails in the Farley Bar—named for the late Phil Frank’s beloved local comic-strip character (a sometime park ranger) who was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle for 32 years—are fresh and organic.