Chicago - Indoor

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Photos from five of the main attractions of Chicago that are included in the CityPass: two museums, aquarium, planetarium and Hancock's Tower

• Museum of Science and Industry, for me Chicago's most interesting museum
• Bodyworlds 2: a really amazing exhibit of human anatomy made by the process of plastination from real human bodies! I have never seen something like that before. Unfortunately taking pictures was prohibited:-( See www.bodyworlds.com and don't miss it if it's somewhere near you!!! For illustration I'm attaching pics from their website.
• Amazing Bodyworlds: Blood vessels in arm
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• Amazing Bodyworlds: "Chess player"
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• Amazing Bodyworlds: "Ponderer"
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• U-505: another quite interesting exhibit is the whole German submarine U-505 that US navy heroically:-) captured during WWII and thus obtaining a lot of intelligence info (including German Enigma coding machines) helped to win the war.
• U-505
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• War posters: the war propaganda seems to be similar in every country... Only in communist bloc it continued long after the war...
• Women, enlist and release a man to fight at sea
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• We need muscular guys to handle the cannons
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• United we shall prevail
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• Other: unfortunately, I didn't have much time to explore the rest of the museum, but this was definitely the most worthy visit during my stay in Chicago...
• Appolo module that landed on the Moon
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• Huge model of railway system including City of Chicago. Every boy dreams to have such model at home to play with;-)
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• Railway bridge
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• Field Museum: a little bit of everything
• Sue - the most complete (90%!) skeleton of Tyrannosaurus in the world
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• Citrine crystals
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• Ceremonial mask from Africa, I believe
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• Poster announcing sale of a gang of slaves from 1856
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• Entrance to Evolution exhibit
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• Shedd's Aquarium with funny dolphin show and many lizards
• The biggest attraction: dolphin show
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• Dolphin swimming backstroke
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• Trainer and her two students
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• Jump
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• Water dancing
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• Seal training
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• Penguin with a friend
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• Turtle checking out what's going on up there
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• Another turtle
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• Lobster - might be nice with cream sauce;-)
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• Sea horse (one of animals, whose babies are delivered by male)
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• Coral reef
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• Ray fish
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• Lizards: There was a special exhibition of lizards including Komodo dragon. Now that's a photographer's dream;-), they almost don't move, so you can use long shutter times and it comes out really nicely;-)
• Green lizard
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• The same green lizard
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• Different lazy green lizard
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• Yet another green lizard
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• Chameleon
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• Lizard, again...
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• The last lizard... almost...
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• The main attraction in lizard section: Komodo dragon. It was sleeping in the far corner:-(
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• Hancock's Tower
• History: Apart from stunning views, Hancock's Tower also features a small exhibit about Chicago's history. Few examples:
• Map of Chicago from 1830 - it seems there was a deep forest in place of our hotel;-)
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• Some things that were first introduced or invented in Chicago: e.g. skyscrapers, zipper, lie detector or roller skates
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• Adler's Planetarium: a bit boring
• Adler's Planetarium: after seeing the Museum of Science and Industry and Museum of Science in Baltimore, MD, Adler's Planetarium is a bit boring. Exhibits are kind of childish and not original and the cinematic show about Black holes is great for a nap, like most shows in planetariums:-). The exhibit about history of astronomy saves it a bit, but...
• Globe
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• One of the first planetariums: it's an iron sphere with tiny holes that depict star constellations. You sit in a small carriage, it takes you inside and after a while your eyes adjust and you see the night sky view;-)
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• Infrared me
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• Tribute to Muslim astronomy...
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