The tiny ruins of Migdal's old synagogue are not open to the public but visitors can take a 2km detour to the shore of Lake Galilee for a trip on the Jesus Boat, a 2, 000-year-old vessel that was excavated and restored in 1986.

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At seven, we reached the shore of a small frozen lake.

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In the summer of 1953, Tyler was fishing from a dinghy along the northern shore of Lake Superior when he noticed an odd outcrop nearby.

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Louis, recently signed a contract to buy a three-bedroom house with a boat dock and a swimming platform on the shore of Lake of the Ozarks, a Missouri vacation spot.

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Masika's husband's family rejected them and she brought her daughters and their babies to a market town hugging the shore of Lake Kivu to try and rebuild their lives.

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On the lake's northern shore, a fossil of a giant femur bone, bigger than an adult man, leans against a rock-face and signals your arrival at the Lago Barreales Paleontological Center.

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Mr. Bluth has moved to a 20, 000-square-foot home on 4 acres on the east shore of Lake Tahoe.

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The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.

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The 20, 000-square-foot home on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was built in 1963 and includes eight bedrooms, nine full baths, two half baths, a theater, a pier, a pool and a beach.

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