Destinations

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

 

United States

California

• San Francisco
  • Alcatraz

 

Hawaii

• Pearl Harbor

 

North Carolina

• Asheville
  • Biltmore Estate
• Raleigh
  • Mordecai Historic Park/Andrew Johnson’s Birthplace
  • North Carolina Museum of History
•  Triad
  • Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

 

Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia
  • Independence National Historical Park
  • Museum of the American Revolution
  • Valley Forge National Historical Park

 

South Carolina

• Charleston
  • Charleston museums
  • Fort Sumter

 

Tennessee

• Memphis
  • National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

 

Virginia

• Central
  • Highland
  • Monticello
  • Montpelier
  • Richmond
    • 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
    • Richmond National Battlefield Park
    • The Poe Museum
    • The Valentine
    • Tuckahoe Plantation
    • Virginia State Capitol
    • Virginia Museum of History and Culture
• Northern Virginia
  • Mount Vernon
• Southwest Virginia
  • National D-Day Memorial
•  Tidewater
  • Colonial Williamsburg
  • Fort Monroe
  • Jamestown
  • 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

 

Wyoming

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

 

 

Europe

Belgium

• Brussels
  • European Union Parliament

 

France

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

 

Ireland

• Clonmacnoise
• Dublin
  • Dublinia
  • EPIC
  • Kilmainham Gaol
  • GPO Witness History
  • National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
• Titanic Experience (Cobh)

 

Italy

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

 

The Netherlands

• Amsterdam