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Coordinates: 29°59′23.17″N 95°25′50.17″W. National Museum of Funeral History. The National Museum of Funeral History is a museum in Houston, Texas, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics that aim to "educate the public and preserve the heritage of death care." The 35,000-square-foot museum opened in 1992.
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries.
National seashores are located in ten states and national lakeshores are in two other states. Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan each have two. The largest national seashore or lakeshore is Gulf Islands, at over 137,000 acres (550 km 2 ); the smallest is Fire Island, at 19,579 acres (79.23 km 2 ). The total areas protected by national ...
North Carolina Aquariums is a system of three public aquariums located in Kure Beach, Roanoke Island and Pine Knoll Shores. All are operated by the Aquariums Division of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources since 1976 and were accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. [2]
Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.It is the core of the much larger Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast after Atlanta, and the ninth-largest in the United States.
Miami is the location of 79 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the remaining properties and districts are listed separately. One property, the Venetian Causeway, is split between Miami and Miami Beach, and is thus included on both lists. Another 3 sites were once listed, but ...
25.7919°N 80.1294°W. / 25.7919; -80.1294. Completed. 1939. The National Hotel (also known as The National Hotel or National Hotel Miami Beach) is an Art Deco -style hotel on Collins Avenue in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, Florida. It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) [2] North Carolina state park in Carteret County, North Carolina, in the United States. Located on Bogue Banks, in the town of Pine Knoll Shores, the natural area protects the barrier island 's only remaining intact maritime forest. [4] It is bounded by NC 58 to the south, Bogue ...