For aesthetic enthusiasts, one of the best parts of travel can be appreciating the incredible architecture of our modern world. From Mies van der Rohe to Frank Lloyd Wright, artists with a keen eye for angles, sleek lines, contrasting colors and practical science have been creating masterpieces for years. One illustrator decided to put…
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Celebrate Colorado’s Birthday With 8 Free Musuem Visits
August 1, 2014, is Colorado's 138th birthday, and the state is celebrating by offering free admission to 8 regional museums and a variety of activities throughout the weekend. The museums listed are the Bryers-Evans House Museum, El Pueblo History Museum, Fort Garland Museum, Fort Vasquez Museum, Georgetown Loop Historic Mining, and Railroad Park, Healy House…
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Cruise Offers Tours Focused on Climate Change
One cruise line is not being shy about the controversy of climate change, as they'll be offering a 31-day trip navigating the Northwest Passage, around Alaska and into the Beaufort Sea, through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and onto Greenland before ending in New York City. Crystal Cruises calls this trip "a once in a lifetime…
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New Documentary Brings Wonder Back to Flight
In 2014, United States citizens tend to take a lot of things for granted. Bottled water isn't anything spectacular. Most people we know own a car. And we've all certainly flown in a plane. The difficult time finding parking, the long lines at security, the strict rules for what you can pack and the race…
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Top August Events in the U.S.
Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL - August 1-3 One of America's favorite music festivals, Lollapalooza kicks off in the massive Grant Park in downtown Chicago on August 1. This year's killer lineup includes Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys and hundreds more. With nearly 200,000 fans in attendance each year, Lollapalooza is a celebration of…
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Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum
Rock 'n' Soul Museum Student groups of music fans exploring the river city blues birthplace of Memphis will truly enjoy a stop at this fine institution, a shining tribute to decades of struggle, upheaval, change and triumph that inspired people everywhere to re-think the way they listened. Visitors here are introduced to the brave musical…
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Slave Haven Underground Railroad
Slave Haven Underground Railroad At one time, Cotton truly was King in Memphis. For hundreds of years, African people were rounded up and shipped like livestock across the seas to America, sold into the booming slave trade that ensured the Delta’s cash crops were planted, tended and harvested; the city of Memphis rapidly became Tennessee’s…
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Davies Manor Plantation
Davies Manor Plantation Student groups on Memphis holiday will truly enjoy a stop by historic Davies Manor Plantation, site of the oldest family home in Shelby County, Tennessee. Tours begin with a short familiarization video and usher guests through the furnished log home, around the grounds teeming with wildlife and through a series of carefully…
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Peabody Hotel Ducks
Peabody Hotel Ducks Student groups traveling to the birthplace of the blues will definitely enjoy partaking of this whimsical and entertaining Memphis area tradition – which started at the Peabody Hotel back in 1933 when Frank Schutt, general manager of the hotel, returned from a hunting trip in Arkansas. A group of his buddies, likely…
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Stax Museum of American Soul
[caption id="attachment_7644" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit Memphis Travel[/caption] Stax Museum of American Soul Student groups exploring the best of Memphis won’t want to miss a visit to this fabulous Tennessee attraction! Founded on McLemore Avenue as Satellite Records in 1957, Memphis-based Stax records went bankrupt in 1976; the legendary studio and label that signed young musical…
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