The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art Museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City’s Central [...]
Cruising Chicago’s famous architecture
Chicago’s Architecture Foundation offers river boat cruises viewing Windy City’s landmark buildings [53 historical architectural sites] including the Sears Tower and the Home Insurance Building.
As we cruise along the Chicago River viewing the city’s world-famous architecture, our tour guide motions to the former location of the house and barn belonging to Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, where the [...]
America’s Mustard Museum spreads joy
Hold the mustard with the curator of America’s only Museum dedicated to the pungent condiment.
Just before dawn on October 28, 1986, Barry Levenson stood in the middle of the condiment aisle at a 24-hour supermarket in Madison, Wisconsin, disconsolate over the loss his beloved Red Sox had suffered hours earlier to the New York Mets [...]
Newyorkology just like etceterology
For visitors who want to experience New York City from an insider’s perspective, maybe Newyorkology.com this is the sophisticated travel blog site to visit.
But I will agree with the reviewer’s opinion that not enough original material. Separating links from articles is confusing.
The “ology” theme is carried a bit far, “Etceterology”? Huh?
Quebec > Head north for snow festival
Not satisfied with the taste of snow we enjoyed so far?
Quebec City’s Winter Carnival, one of Canada’s premier seasonal events, begins January 30 and extends through February 15 with snow sculptures, nighttime parades, a dogsled race and an ice palace.
Take a ride in a snowmobile or a horse-drawn carriage, or go hurtling down a hill [...]
The real country > Luckenbach, Texas, preserved in more than song
Luckenbach, Texas > They like to say around here that you can’t find a place more laid-back without being unconscious.
Drive down a single-lane road, turn a corner, and there it is, Downtown Luckenbach in all its glory of three buildings, a ramshackle tavern and general store, a blacksmith shop and an old-time dance hall. Clustered [...]
Hawaii’s changed since 1950s, but the fantasy still remains
When I was a little kid, my dad came back from a business trip to Hawaii with a plastic packet of white Waikiki sand and a fake-grass hula skirt for me.
I loved my tacky souvenirs. I twirled around in the skirt, pretending to be a hula dancer, until the shiny green plastic strands fell off. [...]
Dreaming of Tahiti? Go to Florida
Modern Bride magazine is big on romantic spots. The problem is that so many are overseas, and for many New Orleanians, a foreign trip is not even on the horizon these days.
So, with that in mind, we took three dreamy locales and domesticated them. You can still get a Greek flavored trip, it just might [...]
Take a cyber-tour of the Bahamas
Got an itch for palm trees, beaches, warm sunshine and clear ocean water? And you don’t want to go very far? The islands of the Bahamas are just a short hop from Florida, and they offer lots of relaxation and fun activities.
Your excuses for not going to the islands will fade away after you see [...]
New Mexico’s ancient rock art is a gallery of human history
Nudging a cloud aside, a sunbeam highlights petroglyphs on the cliff face before me. The 3-foot-tall figures, part insect, part reptile, part human, transport me back a thousand years to the Anasazi empire’s heyday in north central New Mexico.
A scolding blue jay brings me back to the present, here in the 576-square-mile El Malpais [...]
