Tag: Museum.

Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi built a functioning living room around the Columbus statue atop a monument in Columbus Circle. Six photos from the 2012 installation.

Tour of the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, including Marine One helicopter, birthplace, and Watergate exhibits.

Explore La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Boulevard where 1 million fossils—saber-toothed tigers, dire wolves, mastodons—trapped in asphalt reveal 40,000 years of prehistoric Los Angeles.

Walk the 2,100-foot Long Corridor and frozen lake at Beijing's Summer Palace. Hand-dug in the 1100s, it remains a feat of imperial engineering and art.

Tour the Franklin D. Roosevelt Family Home and Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kil cottage in Hyde Park, New York. Learn the history of two presidential estates on the Hudson River.

Long weekend in Chicago with friends: architectural walking tour, Field Museum, Hot Doug's hot dogs, and Millennium Park. March 2011.

Explore Versailles Palace and its vast gardens on the final Paris day. Tips for beating crowds, visiting the Hall of Mirrors, and a Seine river tour.

Photo tour of Paris landmarks: climbing Notre Dame, views from the Eiffel Tower, and visiting the Louvre at sunset on a clear spring day.

First day in London: 7am arrival from San Francisco, British Museum visit, Trafalgar Square photos, and shopping on Regent Street.

Navigate Ho Chi Minh City's chaotic traffic, French colonial landmarks, and street food. A 2007 firsthand account of Saigon's sprawling urban center.