Georgia’s Contributions to the US Civil Rights Trail
The addition of Georgia to the US Civil Rights Trail has added eleven important sites that help tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement in the US.
We love museums, and on every trip, we make sure to visit one or two to add some historical dimensions to our travels. Whether it’s a tiny one-room repository of local history or the dramatic sweep of a Guggenheim or Louvre, we encourage all of our readers to visit museums whenever they travel.
The addition of Georgia to the US Civil Rights Trail has added eleven important sites that help tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement in the US.
In a modest house in Irving, Texas, JFK’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, lived quietly with his wife and daughter and Ruth Paine. You can visit Paine’s house.
Avery Island, LA, has been the home to the McIlhenny family’s Tabasco empire since 1868. Today it has a new on-site restaurant called 1868, and a museum.
Singing the blues at B.B. King hometown museum By Jackie Sheckler Finch A tractor mishap helped put the career of a renowned bluesman in high gear. If not for the 1946 accident, the world might never have heard of Riley King. Of course, we got to know him as B.B. King. “Because of that accident, […]
A third Louvre, after the famous museums in Paris and in Northern France, opened in November 017. The Louvre Abu Dhabi will be a museum for the world with treasures from Paris and many other works of priceless art.
Spain’s Extremadura region is famous for Iberico pork and its peppers. These peppers are slowly smoked to create another delightful Spanish spice: paprika.
Spyscape is the newest attraction in New York City’s midtown, where you learn all about spies and become immersed in an interactive game of treachery.
The Guinness Factory at St James Gate is the most popular tourist attraction in Ireland, not only because the beer is so famous, but the interactive displays and history is very interesting and the tour includes beer samples.
Gulliver’s Gate is Unforgettable By Max Hartshorne GoNOMAD Editor Gulliver’s Gate was an astounding miniature world that you could walk through, located in a former New York Times newsroom in Times Square, New York City. Sadly, this attraction permanently closed in 2021. It’s the world’s largest interactive museum of miniatures in the world, created by […]
Two new museums opened in Vevey, Switzerland, and they’re too interesting to be called museums. Chaplin’s World and The Nest, about Nestle Co.
One of America’s most stunning art museums is located in the small town of Bentonville, Arkansas. The Crystal Bridges Museum holds $500 million in artwork.
Visitors of all ages transport themselves back more than a thousand years in time and learn how to live as in a Viking Village in Gudvangen Norway.