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Downtown from the Air
©Betsy Malloy Photography Photo Gallery: Downtown San Diego
Taken from an airplane as it headed toward a landing at the airport, this image shows the twin towers of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, the Holiday Inn Harbor View (cylindrical shape) and One America Plaza, the tallest building in San Diego whose distinctive top shape has prompted the nickname "Phillips screwdriver building."
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Skyline at Twilight
Danita Delimont / Getty Images Taken from the waterfront on Coronado Island, just across the bay from downtown. This photo was taken in 2006 and you may find some new buildings have gone up since then, especially new multi-story residential towers, but the view is stil more or less the same.
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Convention Center
MLB Photos via Getty Images / Getty Images More stylish than most box-like convention centers, it sits on the waterfront and hosts hundreds of conventions every year. It was designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. Although the city is in the nation's top ten by population, the civic center ranks in the 20's among North American convention facilities.
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USS Midway
Marc Buehler/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0 The largest ship in the world when commissioned in 1945, the USS Midway was retired in 1991. The decommissioned ship now serves her final tour of duty in San Diego, home to one-third of the Pacific Fleet and a large cadre of the Midway's former crew.
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Gaslamp Quarter
LeandroNeumann Ciuffo/Ficlkr/CC BY 2.0 The Gaslamp Quarter is an area of great architectural charm, its streets lined with original nineteenth-century buildings and others moved in from other parts of the San Diego, all restored to their original exuberance.
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Star of India
Andrew Flynn/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The world's oldest active sailing ship, the Star of India. During her long maritime career, the sturdy iron ship hauled freight from England to India, carried immigrants from England to New Zealand and worked as a salmon-packing ship in the Bering Sea. Now it's the centerpiece of the San Diego Maritime Museum.