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...Baseball Center, a national landmark that also houses the Baltimore Orioles Museum and the Maryland Baseball Hall of Fame. You might also venture over to the Ripken Museum, in nearby Aberdeen, Md., which has pictures and memorabilia documenting the Ripken baseball dynasty. Besides baseball, Baltimore has its magnificent Inner Harbor, the National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center and the B. & O. Railroad Museum...
...that has antique, automated musical instruments in a reconstructed, turn-of-the-century museum. Continue north through the charming towns of Charlevoix and Petoskey and past the outstanding collection of 400 Victorian homes in Bay View. Another site not to miss: the scenic drive up State Road 119, between Harbor Springs and Cross Village...
Mahon's star attraction is its fabulous natural harbor, three miles long and big enough to shelter a whole fleet of ships. The legendary British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, is said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so captivated by the island that he brought along Lady Emma Hamilton for a few days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island...
Mahon's former strategic importance is captured in a visually exciting museum in British-built Fort Marlborough, near the harbor mouth. Quieter testimony can be found in the small, peaceful harborside cemetery, whose chipped slate gravestones carry pitifully meager details of the young seamen buried there--all that remains of an early 19th century American naval presence on the island. Elsewhere in the broad sweep of the harbor, several tiny islands, which formerly housed military and quarantine hospitals, highlight Minorca's colorful past...
...Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. joins...