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...tapping into the craze by incorporating location-based games into its handheld units. For example, its new Geko 201 ($150) invites users to traverse a virtual maze to capture a series of imaginary flags. To play, stand in any field or parking lot (you need at least 360 sq. ft. to maneuver) and look down at the screen to see where the nearest flag is located. Then walk or run toward it. An onscreen arrow updates your location and tells you when you've reached the flag. You can play alone or with friends, but make sure you look...
...change of scene, you can saunter along the lengthy peaks of the Sand Dunes near Stovepipe Wells, where desert winds have deposited grains of mountain quartz in a beach-like expanse that covers 15 sq. mi. Or you can visit Devil's Golf Course, where wind and rain have shaped the silt of ancient saltwater lakes into surreal crystallized salt pinnacles. And there's no place better to observe the tectonic forces that shaped Death Valley than at Badwater, the lowest place in the valley (and on the continent), where a salt-and-silt bog hundreds of feet below...
...museum, or a mausoleum. He only agreed after he was satisfied that it would be entirely open to other photographers and artists." Located on a tiny impasse in Montparnasse, the artists' quarter where Cartier-Bresson spent much of the late 1920s and '30s, the foundation boasts two 60-sq-m galleries, a library and archives. Cartier-Bresson is a little frail now, at 94, slightly unsteady without his cane and hindered by a hearing problem that is at times severe. In conversation, he often looks to his wife for assistance, but he remains as feisty as ever. He hasn...
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...beautiful late-18th century palace to a thoroughly modern 21st century museum," he says. After a 1992 fire destroyed the Redoutensaal in the nearby Hofburg Palace, the Albertina's management realized they needed a safe place to store the museum's irreplaceable collection. As a result, a 3,000-sq-m state-of-the-art storage area reclaimed from underneath the bastion - a part of the old city fortifications on which the palace stands - will house the artworks under carefully controlled environmental conditions. When completed, a computerized system will be able to locate and retrieve any of the more than...