Inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The glass-enclosed tunnel leading out from the New Wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a portal through time, transporting visitors to a 1903 Venetian-style palace. The four-storey residence,…
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Inside the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion
Nestled in a cluster of trees adjacent to U.S. Route 7 in Connecticut is a 62-room, 44,000 square-foot (4,100 m2) Victorian-era mansion that was built by a man with a…
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Glover Garden and Dejima Island
On top of Minami-yamate, a gorgeous hillside overlooking Nagasaki Harbour, sits Glover Garden (グラバー園), an open-air museum of the homes of former Western residents of the city, who settled there after…
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Kagoshima’s Art Forest
Charcoal skies and lime lawns—that’s how I remember my first visit to the Kirishima Open-Air Museum last June. Now, eight months later and in the last months of winter, the…
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Staten Island’s Alice Austen House
Staten Island is a dump—literally and figuratively. It used to house the world’s largest landfill before it closed in 2001, and although it is the third-largest borough of New York…
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Inside America’s Most Haunted Prison
“Lesson 4,” a voice blasted from the MP3 player of the man sitting across from me. It was the only noise on an otherwise quiet bus, the bumble of which…
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