Get to know a city or region by the artifacts preserved for you to view in museums around the world, here are stories about the world's best museums. We seek out the best museums in every city we visit, you'll find dozens of profiles and lots of photos of the treasures inside them.
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, Louisiana has been the home to McIlhenny family’s Tabasco empire since 1868. Today there is a new on-site restaurant called 1868, and a full museum to go with the factory tour.
B.B. King, the legendary blues guitarist who died in 2015, built a museum in his hometown of Indianola, Indiana, where many of his treasures are on display and where his grave is located.
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. There’s even a museum devoted to the spice. The author, Jackie Sheckler Finch, shares a recipe for the Spanish dish migas.
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 a spectacular new exhibit in New York City’s Times Square. It’s an entire world of miniatures, with realistic buildings, people, cars, and natural wonders.
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 firsthand what how to live as a Viking in Gudvangen Norway.
Among Chicago’s rich arts scene is a new attraction known as the American Writers Museum, a one-of-a-kind place that sparks public interest in literature.
A summer visit to Dublin for some museum viewing, catching up on new exhibits, and especially, people watching in this Magnificent City in Ireland.
In Japan’s capital city, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is a blend of old and the new…with exhibits showing how the shoguns lived as well as about modern Tokyo.
A tour of the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia; visiting the city where the famous Bostonian, Edgar Allan Poe, began his writing career.
The National Music Museum in Vermillion South Dakota has been called the Smithsonian of Music, with an impressive collection of musical instruments.
Mary Todd Lincoln’s childhood home in Lexington, Kentucky has been open to the public since 1977. A tour of the house and grounds and learning her history.
America’s largest residential building is the famous Biltmore House, located on 8000 acres in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. Details about the tour.