Oklahoma: Oil Magnates and Mansions
Oklahoma’s rich oil history and its journey to wealth through mansions and museums there, visiting Woolaroc Preserve, the Marland Mansion and Ponca.
Museums
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 Viking Museum at Roskilde, Denmark
A visit to the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, where you can row a replica Viking boat, watch boatbuilders create Viking ship replicas and more.
Berlin’s Ever Changing Museum Landscape
Berlin’s ever changing museum landscape including folklore, fashion and non-traditional architecture.
The Mormon Temple and Museum in Salt Lake
Utah by RV: Visiting the Mormon Temple & Museum in Salt Lake City By Horst Schenk As part of an RV trip through and along the Rocky Mountains, my wife and I made a stop at Salt Lake City. Of course, we had heard and read about how Salt Lake City…
The Joseph Stalin Museum in Georgia
The Stalin Museum in Gori, Republic of Georgia is a grim reminder of a terrible person who killed millions.
Louvre-Lens Shines Bright in a Once-Sad City in France
Louvre-Lens Brings Great Art to the North of France By Max Hartshorne GoNOMAD Editor The first thing we saw when we arrived in Lens, France were two huge mountains that look like pyramids with grass growing on them. They were coal heaps, giant piles of tailings left over from some…
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History
A Stuffed Dodo and the Legend of Iroquois Ironworkers in Pittsburgh’s Museum By Max Hartshorne I visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, which is attached to an art museum. This museum complex is most famous for its collection of dinosaurs, including a massively…
France: Caen Memorial Museum
By Max Hartshorne We visited the D-Day beaches, the Caen Memorial Museum, the villages of Arromanches and St. Mere D’ Eglise, the nearly destroyed city of Le Havre and pillboxes embedded over the beaches at Longue-sur-mer. It left us in awe of the size and scope of the battles, and…
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Ginger Warder takes us through the highlights of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond one of best museums in the state.
Ramones Museum in Berlin, Germany
Visiting the Ramones museum in Berlin Germany where Florian Hayler a local Ramones fanatic has complied an impressive array of artifacts from the band.
Exploring London’s Museums
The Magnificent Museums of London By Fj Napoleone I had no idea many of London’s museums have free admission. Well almost free: since I’m somewhat gainfully employed, it was hard to walk by the “pay-what-can” box without donating a couple pounds. I even dropped a Canadian toonie into one. And…
New Bedford Whaling Museum
I Saw a Ship a-Whaling New Bedford Whaling Museum offers an impressive collection looking back through history By Jamie Kimmel After heading to New Bedford for the weekend I had so much fun at the New Bedford Whaling Museum I spun off the experience into its own article. This is…