Dayton has the world’s largest military aviation museum. It houses over 300 aircraft across four hangars organized by time period. There are planes from the two world wars, the anti-communist wars in East Asia, the latter decades of the cold war, and experimental aircraft. The National Aviation Hall of Fame Read more…
Travelers learning about the underground railroad should start here in Cincinnati before making their way up to the Susan B. Antony House in Rochester, the Windsor-Detroit river crossing, and the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society. The slave trade existed In Africa but was made more brutal under the Europeans, who brought Read more…
Take a tour and visit the museum to understand all about the history and technical details of Indy car racing. The tour allows visitors to walk on the track and touch the bricks at the finish line. The $25 combo price is well worth the cost. The original track was Read more…
What’s a farm doing in the middle of Ottawa? It’s the Central Experimental Farm attached to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. It’s about a third petting zoo, a third agricultural science, and a third agricultural innovation. After looking at honey and bees inside the museum, visitors are treated to Read more…
American art museums typically have a hodgepodge of second-rate American colonial paintings, clusters of meaningless modern sculptures, and obscure fragments of European churches. Not so in Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago consists of two wings, the old building and modern art. Its best to begin early in the morning Read more…
This place in Chicago is 100% for children and amateur biologists. They have everything from tiny Nemo clownfish of the coral reef to dolphins of the Pacific. It’s not just fish, they also have spiders, frogs, cousins of alligators, and other animals that live near or around water. The special Read more…
Now called the Willis Tower, the department store giant Sears once owned this Chicago landmark. The stepped-back upper floors were designed to yield a maximum window-to-floor ratio to make it attractive for tenants. Not having a gallery on the architectural ingenuity of the architecture of the tower is a missed Read more…
When the John Hancock Building in Chicago was completed in 1969 it was the second tallest building in the world after the Empire State Building, but only if you include the height of its 350-foot tall spires. Today, it’s roof height of 344 meters is barely remarkable. The observation deck Read more…
The MSI in Chicago is one of the better science museums I’ve visited in North America, it’s probably my second favorite on the continent after the Canada Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa and undoubtedly my favorite along the great lakes. Cleveland, Buffalo, and Detroit have nothing comparable to Read more…
I had a field day at the Field Museum, it’s basically Chicago‘s museum of natural and human history. The entrance is graced by a titanosaurus skeleton composed of six dinosaurs looking over a pair of fighting elephants. The place is six museums in one. There are three special exhibitions, an Read more…