Destinations

Travel destinations reviewed by The History Mom in the United States and Europe

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United States

Black History Sites

Historical Holiday Tours

California

• San Francisco
  • Alcatraz

Georgia

• Atlanta
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park

Hawaii

• Pearl Harbor

Maryland

• Civil War Trails

Massachusetts

• Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum

• Plymouth

New Jersey

• Hamilton sites

New York

• Hamilton sites

North Carolina

• Civil War Trails
• Asheville
  • Biltmore Estate
• Charlotte
  • Levine Museum of the New South
• Raleigh
  • Mordecai Historic Park/Andrew Johnson’s Birthplace
  • North Carolina Museum of History
•  Triad
  • Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

Pennsylvania

• Gettysburg National Military Park
• Hamilton sites
• Philadelphia
  • Independence National Historical Park
  • Museum of the American Revolution
  • Valley Forge National Historical Park

South Carolina

• Charleston
  • Charleston museums
  • Fort Sumter
• Kings Mountain National Military Park

Tennessee

• Civil War Trails
•  Memphis
  • National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

Virginia

• Civil War Trails
• Hamilton sites
•  Central
  • Farmville
  • George Washington’s Ferry Farm
  • Highland
  • Monticello
  • Montpelier
  • Petersburg National Battlefield
  • Richmond
    • Agecroft Hall and Gardens
    • American Civil War Museum
    • Berkeley Plantation
    • Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia
    • Henricus
    • Historic St. John’s Church
    • Last week of the Civil War sites
    • Library of Virginia
    • Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown
    • Richmond National Battlefield Park
    • Sherwood Forest
    • Shirley Plantation
    • The Poe Museum
    • The Valentine
    • Tuckahoe Plantation
    • Virginia Capital Trail
    • Virginia Holocaust Museum
    • Virginia State Capitol
    • Virginia Museum of History and Culture
• Northern Virginia
  • Mount Vernon
• Southwest Virginia
  • National D-Day Memorial
  • Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
•  Tidewater/Coastal
  • Colonial Williamsburg
  • First Landing State Park
  • Fort Monroe
  • Jamestown
  • Presidential Sites on Virginia’s Northern Neck
  • Yorktown

Washington, DC

• Ford’s Theatre
• Lincoln’s Cottage
• National Archives Museum
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• The White House
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

West Virginia

• Civil War Trails

Wyoming

• Grand Teton National Park
• Jackson Hole
• Yellowstone National Park

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Europe

Belgium

• Brussels
  • European Union Parliament

France

• Normandy
• Paris
  • Cluny Museum
  • Conciergerie
  • Musée de l’Armée Invalides

Ireland

View Pages

• Clonmacnoise
• Dublin
  • Dublinia
  • EPIC
  • Kilmainham Gaol
  • GPO Witness History
  • National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
• Kilkenny Castle
• Muckross House, Gardens, and Traditional Farm
• Rock of Cashel
• Titanic Experience (Cobh)

Italy

• Orvieto
• Pisa
• Pompeii
• Rome
  • Ancient Rome: Colosseum, the Forum, and Palatine Hill
  • Vatican City

The Netherlands

• Amsterdam