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vet Underground spectaculars. Exhibits include celebrity portraits, while the museum's
theater hosts frequent film screenings and quirky performers. Friday-night cocktails at
the museum are popular with Pittsburgh's gay community.
Carnegie Science Center
MUSEUM
( 412-237-3400;
www.carnegiesciencecenter.org
; 1 Allegheny Ave; adult/child $18/12, IMAX &
special exhibits extra; 10am-5pm Sun-Fri, to 7pm Sat; )
Great for kids and a cut above the
average hands-on science museum, with innovative exhibits on subjects ranging from
outer space to candy.
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
MUSEUM
( 412-322-5058;
www.pittsburghkids.org
; 10 Children's Way, Allegheny Sq; adult/child $13/12;
10am-5pm; )
Features loads of interactive exhibits, including a chance for kids to
get under the hood of real cars and some child-friendly Warhol works.
National Aviary
WILDLIFE RESERVE
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More
412-323-7235;
www.aviary.org
; 700 Arch St; adult/child $13/11;
10am-5pm;
than 600 exotic and endangered birds.
Mattress Factory
ARTS CENTER
( 412-231-3169;
www.mattress.org
; 500 Sampsonia Way; adult $15; 10am-5pm Tue-Sat,
1-5pm Sun)
Hosts avant-garde contemporary installation art and performances.
South Side & Mt Washington
Across the Monongahela River is the South Side, whose Slopes rise up to Mt Washing-
ton; at the Flats, youthful and funky E Carson St bustles with clubs and restaurants. In
the 10 blocks between the 10th St Bridge and Birmingham Bridge there are dozens of
bars, including a bunch of hole-in-the-wall joints. Rising up from the bustling South Side
valley is the neighborhood called the
South Side Slopes
, a fascinating community of
houses that seem perilously perched on the edge of cliffs, accessible via steep, winding
roads and hundreds of stairs.
Monongahela & Duquesne Incline
CABLE CAR
(One-way adult/child $2.50/1.25; 5:30am-12:45am Mon-Sat, from 7am Sun)
The historic fu-
nicular railroads (c 1877) that run up and down
Mt Washington'
s steep slopes afford
great city views, especially at night. At the start of the Monongahela Incline, which is
