Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is the oldest continually operating and collecting museum in the United States. Its vast collection…
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina
Magnolia Plantation in South Carolina boasts the last intact large-scale romantic gardens in the United States. This post contains affiliate links. For…
Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon in Charleston
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon is a quirky museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and a backdrop to some of the defining…
Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina
Boone Hall is one of the oldest working plantations in America. Since its founding in 1681, it has produced a range of…
Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California
A colorful chunk of the Berlin Wall sparkles on a hilltop in the warm sun. Beyond the beautiful landscaped grounds stretch the…
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, maintains: a large collection of materials related to America’s 37th President,…
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, Maryland
The red attic staircase is winding and narrow, so narrow that only one visitor at a time can climb up and peer…
Johnson Victrola Museum in Dover, Delaware — echoes of the past
We stepped through the red double doors and into the sounds of an earlier era. This post contains affiliate links. For more…
Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
The brig Beaver rocked gently in the water as I stood on her upper deck, along with a few dozen other visitors….
The Governor’s Palace at Colonial Williamsburg
The muskets gleam in a circle overhead, like newly polished spokes of an enormous carriage wheel. Their extended bayonets sparkle uniformly silver…
Art and Science on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Last week I enjoyed a kind of homecoming as I played tourist in my adopted home city of Washington, D.C. I started…
U.S.S. Missouri at Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor preserves the bookends of World War II‘s Pacific Theater. This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. My companion…