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Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, known as MCASD, is the contemporary art museum of La Jolla, set on Prospect Street above the Pacific in San Diego. Its La Jolla building grew out of a house designed by the archi…
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Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is a membership library on Wall Street in La Jolla, San Diego, that specialises in music and art. It grew out of a reading club founded by local women in the 1890s, and its 1921 buildin…
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La Jolla Historical Society
The La Jolla Historical Society is a local history organization at 780 Prospect St in La Jolla, San Diego, set on the village's main street a short walk from the coast. It is a good first stop for anyone who wants to und…
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Balboa Park
Balboa Park is San Diego's great urban cultural park, covering more than 1,000 acres just north-east of downtown. It holds the San Diego Zoo, around 15 museums, gardens and performance spaces, and its Spanish Colonial Re…
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Old Globe Theatre
The Old Globe Theatre is a Shakespeare-inspired playhouse in Balboa Park, San Diego, and the heart of one of the best-known regional theatre companies in the United States. It began as a replica of the Globe in London an…
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Cabrillo Bridge
Cabrillo Bridge is the arched concrete bridge that carries El Prado across a canyon to the western entrance of Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, and it still se…
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Gaslamp Quarter
The Gaslamp Quarter is a historic district of about 16 blocks in downtown San Diego, California, lined with restored Victorian-era commercial buildings. It grew from the city's rough late-1800s waterfront streets into it…
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La Jolla Cove
La Jolla Cove is a small, sheltered beach on the coast of La Jolla in San Diego, California, set against sandstone cliffs. It sits at the heart of the San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park, a protected stretch of sea where …
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San Diego Air & Space Museum
The San Diego Air & Space Museum is an aviation and spaceflight museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, housed in the round Ford Building on Pan American Plaza. It follows the story of flight from the Wright Brothers to th…
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San Diego Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art is the main fine art museum of Balboa Park in San Diego, California, housed in an ornate Spanish-style building on El Prado. It is best known for its European collection, especially Spanish pa…
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Alcázar Garden
Alcázar Garden is a formal, Spanish-style courtyard garden in Balboa Park, San Diego, designed to echo the gardens of the Alcázar in Seville, southern Spain. It is known for its strict symmetry, tiled fountains and vine-…
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Botanical Building
The Botanical Building is a large lath-and-wood garden pavilion on El Prado in Balboa Park, San Diego, built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. It is known as one of the largest lath structures in the world, and …
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Balboa Theatre
The Balboa Theatre is a historic performance hall on Fourth Avenue in downtown San Diego, in the Gaslamp Quarter area. It opened in 1924 and is known for its Spanish-style architecture, its long run as a local entertainm…
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Ellen Browning Scripps Park
Ellen Browning Scripps Park is a long grassy bluff above La Jolla Cove in San Diego, California, lined with palms and open to everyone. It was set aside as public land when La Jolla was first laid out in 1887 and named f…
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Sea Caves of La Jolla
The Sea Caves of La Jolla are a string of seven caves cut into the sandstone cliffs along Coast Boulevard in La Jolla, San Diego. They sit just east of La Jolla Cove, a small beach beside a protected underwater park, and…
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San Diego: Balboa Park Adventure
112 min · EN · ES
Places on this quest: Old Globe Theatre · Cabrillo Bridge
Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in Balboa Park, San Diego
90 min · EN · DE · ES · FR · RO · IT
Places on this quest: Alcázar Garden · Botanical Building
Ghost Hunt in San Diego
90 min · EN
Places on this quest: La Jolla Cove · Ellen Browning Scripps Park
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