COPE, or the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise has a visitor center/ museum in Vientiane. It may seem like an odd thing to visit, a visitor center about prosthetics but it's a very important organization and eye opening, especially as an American. I would highly suggest giving yourself time to watch the almost hour long documentary [...]
After the DMZ we made our way back to the beach and visited a couple of buildings and houses of old presidents. The first was the Castle of Hwaginpo, or Kim Ilsung's villa. Kim Ilsung was a president of North Korea and the castle was summer-house for him, his family, and the communist party for [...]
Warning parsites and possibly upsetting parasite pictures ahead. In Meguro there is a free museum of parasites. It opens at 10 and stays open until 5pm on all days but Mondays or Tuesdays when it's closed. My friend and I thought it'd be fun to check out, especially since it's free. The first floor is suppose [...]
Emily had recently spent some time at MOMAT and suggested it as our way to hide from the sun for a bit and soak up some air conditioning. We got there with just enough time to quickly enjoy some art before the museum closed. We were also lucky because we went on the first Sunday of [...]
My first day in Tokyo was on my own. So after breakfast and catching up on sleep I finally talked myself into leaving the hotel and doing some of the stuff my friend had written out and scheduled for me. The plan Tokyo Station Shopping Imperial Palace Ueno Park zoo museum Akihabara shopping wandering around [...]
On our last day on Ganghwa Island we went to the history museum. The museum opened in 2010 and is located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The museum tells the history of Ganghwa island from past to present. The museum is somewhat small, but also includes a theater. While everything is in Korean a [...]
One of the museums we went to on Ganghwa island was the Sound Experience Museum. The Sound Museum is packed with musical instruments that you can play with and all sorts of different unique ways sound travels. We were given a tour that was in Korean so I didn't really gain anything from it, but [...]
Redcliffe Plantation was completed in 1859 by James Henry Hammond and is the smallest of his many plantations. He named it Redcliffe because the dirt is red around the house and it sits up high. It was his show plantation, the party house, or the place to show off just how well he and his [...]
While visiting family in Georgia we spent some time in South Carolina and one of the first places we visited was the Hopelands Gardens. The Hopelands Gardens were given to the city of Aiken and opened in 1969 as a public garden, however there are still private residences on the 14 acres. While we were [...]
The Field Museum is another one of the museums in Museum Campus, it's located at 1400 South Lake Shore Drive. The Field Museum grew out of the World's Fair and opened in 1893. It is considered one of the largest natural history museums in the world. Visitors entering through the North Entrance are greeted by [...]
