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Alpinópolis

It is currently considered one if the most beautiful and most important tourist attraction in Minas Gerais, especially during the Holy Week, when it becomes an outdoor stage for reenactment of the passion of Christ.

Food Network Challenge

Episodes are shot in front of a live audience, usually at tourist attractions such as the Mall of America or Disney World.

Green Grotto Caves

The Green Grotto Caves are show caves and a prominent tourist attraction in Discovery Bay, St Ann on the north coast of Jamaica.

Longkhum

Major tourist attractions include the Mata Yimkong - the top of the hillock where once stood a fortress and the students' Jubilee Tower, the highest point of the village.

Nungwi

Nungwi is a fishermen's village and a tourist attraction located at the northernmost tip of Unguja (Zanzibar), East Africa.

Oberbergische Postkutsche

The Oberbergische Postkutsche (English: Oberbergische stagecoach) is a replica of a 19th-century mail coach run as a tourist attraction between Nümbrecht and Wiehl in Germany.

Shitajiki

Merchandised shitajiki are very common, featuring images of everything from tourist attractions to celebrities to anime and manga characters.


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A1307 road

The road passes Linton on the south side with the B1052 providing access to the town centre and goes southbound to Saffron Walden and Linton Zoo, popular local tourist attraction.The road then terminates in Haverhill.

Amagiyugashima, Shizuoka

It was also the location of the Amagi Tunnel, a tourist attraction based on a famous scene in Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Dancing Girl of Izu.

Baranger Studios

About a hundred of the motions are displayed in the Circus Building of the House on the Rock, a tourist attraction in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Beni Suef Governorate

The nearby Meidum pyramid is the only real tourist attraction in the area.

Cannon Hall Farm

Cannon Hall Farm is a working farm and tourist attraction close to the village of Cawthorne, near Barnsley in the English county of South Yorkshire.

Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chiltern Open Air Museum is a museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage

Located 60 km west of Chingola on the banks of the Kafue River, the orphanage is a tourist attraction for those living in the Copperbelt towns and for international visitors to Zambia.

Colón Province

This province has traditionally been focused in commerce (through the Colón Free Zone, Panama Canal and its banking activities), but also has natural resources that are being developed as tourist attraction, such as coral reefs and rainforests.

Ebisu, Shibuya

Ebisu's main tourist attraction is centered on the Yebisu Garden Place and the Westin Hotel area.

Eider Barrage

Today the barrage is also a tourist attraction as they travel through Eiderstedt with its seaside resorts of Sankt Peter-Ording and Vollerwiek or the resort of Garding.

Elephant's trunk

Elephant Trunk Hill, a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China.

Esquel

Another important tourist attraction is the narrow-gauge train (with 75 cm between the rails), known as La Trochita locally and in English as The Old Patagonian Express, after the book by Paul Theroux.

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Fort Smith Mission Park is a popular tourist attraction featuring historic buildings and a grotto from the Oblate Catholic Mission.

Fountain square

The fountain square in Cincinnati, Ohio has continued to be a popular tourist attraction for more than 100 years; its famous Tyler Davidson Fountain is shown in the opening credits of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati.

Four Mile, South Dakota

Named because of the distance from Custer City on the original Sidney Black Hills Stage Road, Four Mile today is a small bedroom community for Custer, with single tourist attraction Four Mile Old West Town Museum, a log-cabin manufacturer, a small mobile home court, and several other residences.

Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio

Geneva-on-the-Lake's central attraction is "the Strip", a section of State Route 531 which is lined with parks, restaurants, and arcades, and has been a tourist attraction for decades.

Gerry Wood

The same month, in response to a severe shortage of fruit pickers in the Territory, Wood wandered around the Mindil Beach Markets, a popular tourist attraction, dressed as a mango tree.

Gnome Reserve

The Gnome Reserve is a garden and tourist attraction at West Putford, near Bradworthy, Devon, England, presented as a pastoral refuge for garden gnomes.

Harbour Centre

The Vancouver Lookout tourist attraction, located atop the Harbour Centre business building, was officially opened on August 13, 1977 by Neil Armstrong, whose footprint was imprinted onto cement and was on display on the viewing/observation deck until it was lost (or stolen) during renovations.

Hatyapuri

Hatyapuri 1979) a crime novel by Satyajit Ray gets its title from a location (Puri) on the shores of the Bay of Bengal which is a popular tourist attraction in East India.

Helsingør Municipality

Kronborg Castle, known internationally as the setting of William Shakespeare's theatre play Hamlet, is today the town's main tourist attraction.

Knebworth Park and Winter Green Railway

The Knebworth and Winter Green Railway was a narrow gauge railway built in the grounds of Knebworth House in 1972 as a tourist attraction.

Largo, Sofia

The lawn and the flags in the centre are to be substituted by a glass lid on the floor, so that the ruins of the ancient Thracian and Roman city of Serdica can be exposed in an impressive way, thus becoming a tourist attraction.

Lithia water

An example of a noncommercial lithia water can be found in Ashland, Oregon's Lithia Park, a very popular tourist attraction because of its lithia water fountain.

Lupu Bridge

The closest subway station currently in operation to the base of the bridge for the tourist attraction is the Luban Road Station on Line 4 of the Shanghai Metro.

Manchester Slingback

The novel contrasts the underground status of the village during the 1980s, when the city's Chief Constable was James Anderton, with its flourishing as a tourist attraction in the 1990s.

Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation

The visitors center is a tourist attraction with its self-guided tour of the processing plant (viewed from the outside on a second-floor walkway due to safety and sanitation concerns) and large gift shop with homemade macadamia ice cream for sale and free samples of every flavour variation sold by the company.

Mother Shipton's Cave

Nearby is a petrifying well which has been a tourist attraction since 1630 due to its association with the legendary soothsayer and prophetess Mother Shipton (c. 1488 - 1561), born Ursula Southeil, wife of Toby Shipton.

Mulben

A small farm upon the road that leads in that northerly direction called House of Mulben has also become a tourist attraction by offering such activities as archery, clay pigeon shooting, off road driving with Land Rover Defenders, zorbing and the chance to fish in a small, private lake.

National Brewery Centre

The National Brewery Centre (formerly the Bass Museum and later the Coors Visitor Center) is a museum and tourist attraction in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England.

Nick Dandolos

The game, set up by Benny Binion as a tourist attraction, is widely credited as being the inspiration for the modern day World Series of Poker.

North Berwick Harbour

The Scottish Seabird Centre has become a major tourist attraction since opening in 2000 and tourists can still take Sula II to see the gannets, puffins and other birdlife in the area.

Pinecrest, Florida

Parrot Jungle was founded in 1936 by Franz and Louise Scherr on property located at Red Road and Southwest 111 Street and over the years became a world famous tourist attraction whose visitors included Sir Winston Churchill.

Port Royal

The Giddy House, an artillery storage room built c1880, was tilted by this earthquake and is today a minor tourist attraction.

Ropotamo

The lower Ropotamo is a popular tourist attraction because of the water lilies and the rock formations above the river, on some of which white-tailed eagles nest.

San Simeon, California

A key feature of the area is Hearst Castle, a hilltop mansion built by William Randolph Hearst in the early 20th century that is now a tourist attraction.

Seaton, Devon

At Beer, about two miles west of Seaton, is the Beer Heights Light Railway; along with numerous model railways this is part of Pecorama, a tourist attraction provided by the model railway manufacturer Peco.

Part of the trackbed has been used to construct the Seaton Tramway to Colyton, a tourist attraction.

Sheth Gopalji Hemraj High School

Sanjay Gandhi National Park one of the tourist attraction in Mumbai is at walkable distance from the school.

Somoto, Madriz

Somoto is also home to the Somoto Canyon, a relatively big tourist attraction in Nicaragua.

Speen, Buckinghamshire

Many of the horses that were injured when the IRA bombed the Royal Horse Guards in the early 1980s were brought here (Sefton being the most famous), and the stables have become a popular tourist attraction for animal lovers.

St Mary and St Margaret's Church, Castle Bromwich

Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens is a popular tourist attraction and are open to the public.

Sundborn

The most famous resident was the painter Carl Larsson and his house (Little Hyttnäs) in Sundborn is a popular tourist attraction.

Sweet Haven

Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, tourist attraction in Malta

Tianlong Tunbao town

Tianlong Tunbao (also spelled Tunpu) (simplified Chinese:天龙屯堡) is an historic town and tourist attraction located near Anshun city of Guizhou province in China.

Tourism in Zimbabwe

They have become famous and a tourist attraction because Cecil John Rhodes famous for his vision that led to foundation of Rhodesia, and other early white pioneers like Leander Starr Jameson, Major Allan Wilson, and most of the members of the Shangani Patrol are buried in these hills at another site named World's View.

US Microbics

Robinson’s application of microbic technology for the hospitality industry ranged from the pioneering cleanout of the fuel holding tanks on the RMS Queen Mary during its "transplant" as a Long Beach tourist attraction in the 70’s, to the grease trap maintenance for odor and grease buildup at the world famous Pea Soup Anderson Restaurant (in Buellton, California), to the Buellton Wild Animal Park’s odor and runoff control.

Vieux Fort Quarter

A notable tourist attraction is the Maria Islands Nature Reserve, managed by the Saint Lucia National Trust, which is a nesting ground for leatherback turtles and is home to a species of iguana indigenous to St. Lucia.

Vivekananda Rock Memorial

Vivekananda Rock Memorial is a monument and it is a popular tourist attraction in Vavathurai, Kanyakumari, India.