Downtown Dayton is entirely skippable. There are no restaurants, no shops, no street life, and few interpretive plaques on the city’s history. Not even the Second Street Market is open daily like the ones in Colombus and Cincinnati. It’s so boring that it even erected a statue of Lincoln in Read more
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and its 10th chief justice – the only person the have held both offices. He was also the governor of Cuba and the Philippines when they were US colonies. Taft is one of the earlier presidents so he doesn’t 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
Cincinnati is home to William Howard Taft’s family, he was the 27th US president. It’s also home to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the best place to begin an educational trail to learn all about the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. Liberty Street used to be the northern 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
Evan Williams is the second largest bourbon producer in the US after Jim Beam. It was the first licensed distillery in Kentucky in 1783, nine years before it became a state. Back in the day, producers couldn’t control the alcohol content of their product, so whisky ranged from 90 to Read more
Everything unhealthy is everything Kentucky. Premium fudge, excellent whiskey, and all the fried chicken you could ever want. Get fat, get drunk, and go to bed. Wake up the next morning and lose money in a casino across the border in Indiana or at the Kentucky Derby in May. The 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