Canada
Point Prim Lighthouse
The oldest Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island is Point Prim Lighthouse built in 1845. It’s 60 feet tall and a $5 fee will let you climb up to the top. It’s 20 feet wide at the bottom by narrows to Read more
Canada
Confederation Center
The confederation of Canada happened in Charlottetown. In 1864, 23 representatives from the five eastern provinces excluding Newfoundland and Labrador met here to discuss forming a federal union. A competition began in the 1950s to build the Confederation Centre of Read more
Canada
Acadian Museum
The Acadian Museum in Moncton is run by the University of Moncton. It has to be visited with forts Beauséjour and Lawrence to understand the context of the conflict between Acadian, the French, the British, and indigenous Mi’kmaq people in Read more
Canada
Charlottetown, PE
Charlottetown is the provincial capital of the smallest province in the confederation, Prince Edward Island, which is several times smaller than Vancouver Island. Though small, it played the biggest part in confederation by hosting the meeting that led to the Read more
Iconic Places
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History
Andrew Carnegie donated almost all of his wealth and some of it has been used to build the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. They should have a bundle to visit all four museums but you have to buy three separate Read more
Iconic Places
Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum in his native Pittsburgh is under the umbrella of Carnegie’s museums. Visitors start at the top floor of the building and work their way down six floors of galleries from his early life in New York Read more
Cities
Pittsburgh, PA
Philanthropist steel baron Andrew Carnegie spent much of his career building the steel industry in Pittsburgh, also known as Steel City. There are more than a dozen yellow steel bridges crisscrossing the Ohio and Monongahela rivers, skyscrapers mirroring each other’s Read more
Iconic Places
National Museum of the US Air Force
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 Read more
Cities
Dayton, OH
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 Read more
People
William H. Taft National Historic Site
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. Read more