Canada
Whistler, B.C.
A charming little ski resort town that is blessed with year-round snow cover, it is only two hours away from Vancouver by car. If you don’t have a car you can use Evo car sharing and they allow you to Read more
Iconic Places
Federal Hall
Sitting in the middle of Wall Street diagonally across from the New York Stock Exchange is an old customs house on the site where George Washington was inaugurated in 1789. The building was completed in 1842 in classical revival style Read more
US
Tenement Museum
Ubiquitous tenement buildings are a staple in New York popular culture. The red brick buildings with a fire escape hanging off the outside wall are featured on the silver screen and in music videos across decades. The Tenement Museum is Read more
US
National Civil War Museum
In 1860, the North had virtually unlimited credit, over 80% of deposits, and the bulk of industrial power while the south was poor and relied on slavery. Americans have instituted slavery for 240 years, more than half of the country’s Read more
US
America’s Transportation Experience
The museum near the Hershey chocolate factory is a combined bus and car museum. I like how it arranged cars by period in scenes from the decade such as in a drive-in theatre, a used car lot, or a gas Read more
Iconic Places
Three Mile Island
Two nuclear power plant disasters from the Cold War live in our collective memory—Chernobyl in 1989 and Three Mile Island in 1979. There was also Fukushima more recently but that wasn’t an issue that rose from human error, quite the Read more
US
State Museum of Pennsylvania
The museum in state capital Harrisburg is one of the few state museums in the northeast that aren’t free. It’s just across the street from the Pennsylvania State Capitol so hold on to your ticket in case you need to Read more
Iconic Places
Pennsylvania State Capitol
In state capital Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has one of the most ornate state capitols in the U.S. It is the third building on the site, the first burned down in a blizzard from heating coals, and the second was so ugly Read more
Cities
Harrisburg, PA
The capital of Pennsylvania is boring. The State Capitol and State Museum are all it has going for it for tourists. You can find delicious food in the market made by Amish people, but more of them live in Lancaster’s Read more
Iconic Places
Amish Farm and Home Museum
This is America’s first Amish museum established in 1956. It’s east of Lancaster deep in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. The region also has Quaker and Mennonite families. There are now 43,000 Amish people in Lancaster County, out of 370,000 in the Read more