Located in the former Winter Palace of the Tsars, the State Hermitage Museum (Государственный Эрмитаж) contains over three-million works of art from across the globe. In addition to the fabulous selection of artwork housed in the Hermitage, one can take in the opulent architecture of Tsarist Russia.
Located in downtown Irkutsk, the Trubetskoy home - former residence of exiled Decembrist rebels - now serves as a museum to the Decembrist exiles.
The Font Magica is located at the entrance to the Catolonia National Museum of Art in Barcelona, Spain. The fountains were renovated, along with the museum, at the time of the Barcelona Olympics, which also took place in Parc de Montjuic.
The Intel Museum in Silicon Valley is a fun and educational kid-friendly hands-on museum with activities that even the youngest computer enthusiast will appreciate. Among the essential items to see are: computer chip wafers, the silicon ingot and some of the first PCs and their components to enter homes in the early 1980s.
Rocks State Park is located in Jarrettsville, MD and there are great natural, dense wooded hiking trails, a wonderful waterfall, and a 190-foot rock outcrop called The King and Queen Seat. The movie 'Tuck Everlasting' was filmed in this park and features all of the aforementioned attributes to the area.
The waterfall (Kilgore Falls) in the Falling Branch section of the park is Maryland's second highest vertical drop waterfall.
Sand Harbor is quite possibly the most picturesque spot on Lake Tahoe. It is located on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and is part of the Nevada State Parks system.
At the end of Seaside Park, New Jersy is Island Beach State Park. It is a barrier island on the Jersey Shore that stretches for nearly 10 miles.
Wildman's Civil War Surplus is run by self-styled racist Dent "Wildman" Myers, who was born in 1930. Meyers calls his store "The Best Little War House in Kennesaw." He sells Civil War relics, political books, medicinal herbs, posters praising defenders of the white race, Stars and Bars flags, and White Power CDs.
Carniceros (butchers) have a flying license and can take some of the rusting metal of the corrosion corner of the Aeropuerto International de La Paz to fetch meat grown in Bolivia's Lowlands ...
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The Modern collects, presents, and interprets international developments in post–World War II art in all media. The Modern maintains one of the foremost collections of modern and contemporary art in the central United States and hosts major traveling exhibitions.