Panoramic views of the city, harbour, and ocean draw visitors to the site.
The increase — most obvious during warm months in the long, crawling lines and oceans of visitors pouring into and out of the narrow barracks onto fleets of buses to Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, the vast extermination camp the Nazis built a few miles away — has strained an antique exhibition conceived when not many people came.
HIGHLIGHT -- Ocean conditions permitting, visitors can sometimes go out by fishing boat to observe turtles mating in the waters off the coast.
Throngs of summertime tourists have been swept away by chilly ocean breezes, and visitors can freely navigate cobblestone streets and appreciate the multifaceted heritage of a city with a remarkable number of restored Colonial buildings -- 500 in total.
But, in the wilderness and oceans of Fiji, visitors can actually experience how their actions affect the ecosystem.
Ocean Journey attracted 912,000 visitors in its first six months, in 1999, and more than one million in 2000, putting the attendance figure in the top 10 among the nation's aquariums.
THE tang of ocean breezes greets a visitor heading for Belle Harbor in the Rockaways as far inland as the intersection of Cross Bay Boulevard and the Belt Parkway.
Rides, games, lights, boardwalk, laughs, hot dogs, corn on the cob, cotton candy, beach, sun, sand and the ocean... that's why visitors come to Coney Island.
Ramsey's Hawaii-based tour company, One Ocean Diving, takes locals and visitors alike out into the deep blue off Oahu's North Shore to swim with galapagos, sandbar, and tiger sharks.
Fortunately, those who've been there know about places like Cape May, where visitors enjoy calm ocean breezes, historic Victorian homes, and the comforting knowledge that they are as far away geographically from New York City as any point in New Jersey.
