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El Museo Nacional de la Segunda Guerra Mundial presenta una rica colección de artefactos que consiguen dar vida a la historia durante el período de la II Guerra Mundial en los EE.UU. Explore la experiencia estadounidense en la guerra que cambió el mundo. Desde las galerías del Día D hasta el altísimo pabellón US Freedom: The Boeing Center a las revolucionarias Campaign of Courage, este museo de historia conocido mundialmente fue creado para inspirar a visitantes de todas las edades, educarlos sobre el heroísmo, la tragedia y la liberación de la II Guerra Mundial. Exhibiciones únicas y sorprendentes: The Arsenal of Democracy – el objetivo del Museo Nacional de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es contar la historia de cómo se ganó la guerra. La Exhibición The Arsenal of Democracy: The Herman and George R. Brown Salute to the Home Front (la exhibición permanente más nueva de museo, ubicada en la segunda planta del Pabellón Lousiana Memorial) literalmente trae la historia a casa. A través de exhibiciones multimedia e interactivas, y basándose en artefactos e historias orales, The Arsenal of Democracy crea innumerables oportunidades para que los visitantes puedan establecer una conexión más directa con la población que vivió la guerra   Road to Tokyo – Fundación Richard C. Adkerson y FreeportMcMoRan. La galería del escenario del Pacífico recorre el trágico sendero que conduce desde Pearl Harbor a la bahía de Tokio a través de Nueva Guinea y el sudeste de Asia el Himalaya, Birmania, las islas del Pacífico, China, India y Alaska.   Road to Berlin – The Duchossois Family. La galería del escenario europeo da vida al drama, los sacrificios, las historias personales y las estrategias de la campaña de los Estados Unidos para derrotar los poderes del Eje y preservar la libertad.   Beyond All Boundaries – muestra exclusivamente la Guerra que cambió el mundo en 4D, en el teatro Solomon Victory del Museo Nacional de la Seguda Guerra Mundial. No incluida con la entrada.   The D-Day Invasion Of Normandy – esta original exhibición, que se encuentra en la tercera planta del Pabellón Louisiana Memorial, ayuda a entender a qué se enfrentaron los Aliados en Normandía, desde los preparativos exhaustivos hasta los enormes desafíos una vez que las tropas aterrizaron en las playas de Normandía.   Galería US Merchant Marine – esta galería rinde homenaje a los marineros mercantes civiles que arriesgaron sus vidas transportando armas, hombres y material para las tropas estadounidenses en el extranjero.   Final Mission: USS Tang Submarine Experience – esta exhibición sitúa a los visitantes bordo del submarino más exitoso en la Segunda Guerra Mundial para la última patrulla de guerra el 25 de octubre de 1944. No incluida con la entrada.   Manufacturing Victory – Siga el trayecto industrial que llevó a los Estados Unidos de una nación peligrosamente preparada para la guerra a una superpotencia global que condujo a los Aliados a la victoria en la II Guerra Mundial.   Galería Special Exhibit – Fundación Joe W. and Dorothy D. Brown. Esta galería presenta exhibiciones rotativas a partir de colecciones propias del Museo, así como exhibiciones itinerantes relevantes de instituciones líderes de todo el mundo.

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City Sightseeing offers a thoroughly entertaining audio guide with fascinating facts and figures that even some of the locals won't know! Across the 15 stops of the route, you will have the opportunity to remain on the comfortable and convenient bus for the entire loop, listening to the informative audio commentary, or to hop on and off at each attraction. Join us as we start at Bus Stop 1, the famous Brighton Pier. Hop off if you would like to take a walk through a shingle and sand beach with funfairs, arcades, cafés, and shops. Take advantage of the privileged view from the open-top buses as we drive by King's Road, Grand Avenue, Palmeira Square, and Lansdowne Road. Hop off at Bus Stop 6 to take a stroll through St. Anns Well Gardens and visit a scented garden that allows the visitor to experience many different smells. Do your shopping at Bus Stop 8, Imperial Arcade, an enclosed shopping arcade in central Brighton, and hop back on to get to your next shopping destination: North Laine. City Sightseeing Brighton City Tour does not finish here. Get to enjoy a panoramic view of the shoreline from the comfortable busses as we go by the exclusive area of Brighton Marina, Royal Crescent, and Madeira Drive. Buy your ticket today and start planning your itinerary!

Save money on Gate Price! A must see! Are you ready for an unprecedented, exciting experience? A new, going under the skin  and exciting adventure through historic Berlin awaits you from spring 2013 in the capital! 9 infamous Berliners will take you on a journey through the history of the old Berlin in 9 scarily funny shows with amazing special effects and historical scenes. Experience over 700 years darkest Berlin history, from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Walk with friends on the fine line between fun and scare. Meet the limping monk Father Roderick, the legendary white woman or Berlin's most notorious serial killer,  Carl Grossmann. Test your nerves on the raft that floats with you through the murky, dark waters of the Spree while trying to escape the deadly plague that has spread across the capital. This attraction is a must see for visitors and Berliners. It breathes life into the stories of the Hohenzollern, the City Palace, the Cathedral, the Silesian Station and many other places. The Berlin Dungeon opens it doors to history in the heart of the city, between Hackescher Markt and Alexanderplatz. A unique experience!  You were never so close to the real story before! You can choose between German and English shows!  

SKYDECK CHICAGO At 1,353 feet and 110 stories above the streets of downtown Chicago, The Ledge at the Willis Tower (formerly known as Sears Tower) Skydeck will transform any visitor's--or local's for that matter--experience with the Windy City. In January 2009, Willis Tower owners began a major renovation of the beloved Skydeck, which originally opened in 1974, and served as a premier tourist attraction throughout the skyscraper's tenure as the Sears Tower. When ownership changed hands, the fresh blood added a fresh look--and adrenaline rush--to the 103rd floor in the form of retractable glass balconies extending about 4 feet over Wacker Drive and the Chicago River below. Still the 8th tallest building in the world, and the absolute tallest in the Western Hemisphere, Willis Tower's Skydeck draws 1.5 million people a year who are eager to ascend the 110-story, 1,454 foot (443 meter) building for awesome panoramic views of the city and surrounding countryside. Your journey to the top of the Willis Tower starts with a walk through an airport-style metal detector, followed by a slow elevator ride down to the waiting area where visitors queue for tickets. A sign will tell you how long you'll have to wait to get up high; this is a good time to confirm the visibility. Even days that seem sunny can have upper-level haze that limits the view. On good days, however, you can see for 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 kilometers), as far as the states of Indiana, Michigan. Iowa, and Wisconsin. While you wait, you can watch a film about Willis Tower factoids. Then you'll wait a little longer before the ear-popping, 70 second elevator ride up to the 103rd floor deck. From here, the entire city stretches below, and you can see exactly how Chicago is laid out. Willis Tower, Skydeck, and The Ledge Fast Facts The hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind each week on Skydeck windows served as this inspiration for The Ledge. The Ledge boxes can each bear about 4-1/2 metric tons of weight, and adventurers who trust that statistic enough to prove it can often be found jumping and bounding around the entirely translucent enclosures as Chicago's heavy traffic and infrastructure bustle below. The Ledge’s glass panels weight 1,500 pounds apiece, and each box is comprised of three layers of half-inch thick glass laminated into one seamless unit. In addition to serving 1.3 million tourists per year in its 4.5+ million square feet of space, Willis Tower is home to more than 100 companies, including prominent law, insurance, transportation, and financial services. The Ledge's glass boxes retract into the Skydeck main floor for easy maintenance, probably mostly cleaning off the 974 dead birds that must fly into them every month. The Moonwalk is the most popular dance performed on The Ledge, followed closely by the Running Man. Riverdance clocks in at a distant third. Bringing people who are afraid of heights to The Ledge is not recommended, unless you are mean-spirited or really don't like them. In which case, you should probably just take them here. Willis Tower was known as Sears Tower for decades, until the 30th anniversary of Diff'rent Strokes, at which point it was rightfully renamed   SHEDD AQUARIUM EXHIBITS UNDERWATER BEAUTY – A SPECIAL EXHIBIT Our living world is full of wonder. Celebrate with us the unbelievable beauty living in our oceans, lakes and rivers in a new special exhibit at Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty. Get a glimpse of the grandeur beneath the waves as 100 species from around the world come together in an evocative new space. What is beauty? Spark your curiosity as you see all the ways beauty moves and coexists. Watch sea jellies pulse, eels ribbon and a rainbow come alive with reef fishes. Feel the rhythms, embrace the colors and savor the patterns found only underwater. Experience a world worth celebrating – and saving. AMPHIBIANS! Get ready for a toadally ribbiting experience! Shedd’s new special exhibit, Amphibians, hops into the aquarium May 16 and is included with admission. ​In Amphibians, you’ll meet 40 species of frogs, salamanders and rarely seen caecilians. Learn how amphibians’ lives are full of change, from their life cycles to their adaptations to live in nearly every environment on Earth. Find out how too much change can spell trouble for amphibians — and how you can help them cope with big changes in our world today! Waters of the World Travel the world in 80 habitats. Dive into Oceans, from coastal kelp forests to the seafloor. Explore the self-contained ecosystems of Islands and Lakes. Visit Rivers—big and small—and learn more about our local waters in the new At Home on the Great Lakes exhibit. Meet hundreds of amazing animals, from tiny mantella frogsto a a giant octopus, from a Grand Cayman blue iguana to Nile knifefish, and from moon jellies to sea stars. We even have map turtles, in case you get lost. Caribbean Reef Take a 360-degree tour of an underwater reef community. Follow a green sea turtle. Peek at a moray eel in a rocky crevice. Watch regal rays glide by. Get eye-to-eye with parrot fish and sharks. Visit Caribbean Reef, Shedd’s award-winning 90,000-gallon circular habitat in the grand rotunda. Amazon Rising Take an exotic journey in the Amazon, home to one-third of all living things. Watch out for anacondas and piranhas, spiders, rays and a camouflaged caiman. In churning river channels, still lakes and even flooded treetops look for tetras, turtles and fruit-eating fish called tambaqui. See how the region’s animals, plants and people adapt to the water’s dramatic annual rise and fall. Abbott Oceanarium The Abbott Oceanarium immerses you in the vibrant coastal ecosystem of beluga whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, sea otters and sea lions. You’ll also find a host of fishes and invertebrates that make their homes where freshwater flows into the ocean or where tides turn seascapes to landscapes and back again each day. Use our self-guided map to discover how animals are linked to each other, their homes and you. Polar Play Zone Kids have a place at Shedd that they can call their own—Polar Play Zone. It’s cool as ice and twice as nice! The penguins think so, too. Play! Splash! Pretend! What would you like to be? A sleek sliding penguin? A deep-sea explorer? How about both? In Polar Play Zone, you can slip into a penguin suit and try being a bird in the Icy South play area. From there, head to the Icy North to explore the belugas’ Arctic waters in a kid-sized submarine. Don’t forget to shake hands—or is it arms?—with colorful sea stars in the touch pools. In Polar Play Zone, you’ll learn about polar opposites—big and small, fast and slow, shallow and deep, even north and south—while you play. The Oceanarium Aquatic Presentation​ is included however based on available seating and remaining show times at the time of guest arrival. (2019 Aquatic Presentation Schedule) Stingray Touch (seasonal experience) is included. Open late May through October. 4D Experience is not included however the 4D experience tickets may be purchased at the theatre for $4.95 per -person

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum was designed by Event Communications, the multi-award winning designers of Titanic Belfast, EPIC Ireland tells the authentic and epic story of 10 million journeys and the roots of 70 million people. Conal Harvey, Managing Director, EPIC Ireland said: ‘The vision and objective of EPIC Ireland is to be the essential first port of call for visitors to Ireland, the first piece of orientation for any trip. Its purpose is to tell untold epic stories in a unique, highly entertaining and informative way.’ He continued: ‘EPIC Ireland provides the opportunity to celebrate and enhance the connectivity between Ireland and those who left, but benefited from being Irish. It will also enable those with no connection to Ireland or its Diaspora to have the opportunity to understand this story of the Irish people and why emigration looms so large in the Irish consciousness both in the past and today.’ EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is a self-guided tour and the recommended visit time is 1 hour 30 minutes - 2 hours. AWARDS European Museum of the Year Award 2018  - Shortlisted Children in Museums Award 2017 – Shortlisted - the only Irish museum selected for this prestigious European award. TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Awards – Top 5 Irish Museums PRESS “Thought-provoking…I had never fully appreciated the Irish diaspora until my visit to this high-tech exhibit…an entertaining and educational experience”  -Travel writer Rick Steves. Top 10 Things to Do in Dublin “It’s simply too good of a story to miss”.   National Geographic Traveller “Unmissable” -The Mirror