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Pearl Harbor / USS Arizona Memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial was dedicated in 1962, built directly over the sunken remains of the battleship USS Arizona, which was destroyed during the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with the loss of 1,177 crew members — the single deadliest loss of life aboard any ship in the attack that drew the United States into World War II. The memorial's distinctive design, by architect Alfred Preis, deliberately sags in the middle and rises at both ends, a shape the architect described as symbolizing initial defeat followed by ultimate victory, and the structure straddles the sunken hull without touching it, built specifically not to disturb the wreck below. The ship still slowly leaks oil from its submerged fuel tanks more than eight decades after sinking, a phenomenon visitors can see rising to the surface in small iridescent droplets sometimes called the "tears of the Arizona," and the vessel remains an official war grave, with many of the sailors killed in 1941 still entombed within the wreck. For a Honolulu attractions list, the USS Arizona Memorial is the essential "the day the war began" entry — a 1962 memorial built directly over a sunken warship that still leaks oil today, marking the single deadliest ship loss of the attack that drew America into World War II.
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Bishop Museum
The Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last direct descendant of the Kamehameha royal line, and it holds the largest collection of Hawaiian and Pacific Island cultural artifacts and natural history specimens anywhere in the world. Princess Pauahi's own personal collection of royal Hawaiian artifacts, including feather cloaks and other objects passed down through the Kamehameha dynasty, forms the founding core of the museum's collection, giving it a direct material connection to the Hawaiian monarchy that few other institutions can claim. The museum's Hawaiian Hall, housed in a Victorian-era building of native koa wood, was extensively renovated in the 2000s to modernize its exhibits while preserving the historic three-story gallery structure, and the museum's planetarium and natural science wings have expanded its scope well beyond purely cultural history. For a Honolulu attractions list, the Bishop Museum is the essential "the Kamehameha dynasty's own collection" entry — an 1889 museum built around a princess's personal royal artifacts, still the largest single repository of Hawaiian and Pacific cultural history anywhere in the world.
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