The Stanley Hotel – In A Colorado Minute (Week 245)
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, is known for its prime location overlooking mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountain National Park, and for being the home and inspiration to Stephen King as…
Governors Island – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 109)
Governors Island, nestled snugly between Brooklyn and Manhattan*, is one of those magical unreachable places that you get to see from afar for years and then finally you find a way in (or it’s opened…
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site (Atlanta) – In Another Minute (Week 82)
The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia (established in 1980) includes King’s boyhood home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church (he and his father had been pastors there), the Civil Rights Walk, a Gandhi…
Schloss Charlottenburg Palace (Outside) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 129)
The Schloss Charlottenburg (English: Charlottenburg Palace) is the largest palace in Berlin and was originally commissioned by Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Friedrich III (later known as King Friedrich I) in the late 17th century,…
David Hasselhoff sings at the wall to save the East Side Gallery
Today David Hasselhoff came to Berlin to support the East Side Gallery – a stretch of the former wall, which has become both an outdoor art gallery and a memorial ever since about…
Flushing Meadows World’s Fair (Queens) – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 90)
Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens hosted the World Fair in 1939/40 and 1964/65 and still features several iconic and slightly extraterrestrial seeming structures left from those fairs. Among the structures at the Flushing…
Holocaust Memorial – In A Berlin Minute (Week 22)
The official name of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is “Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas” (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe). The Holocaust Memorial was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold and officially inaugurated…
Berlin Churches of the 1989 Peaceful Revolution / Kirchen der Friedlichen Revolution – In A Berlin Minute (Week 126)
In days like these, when there are so many uprisings that are answered by violence, I thought it would be a good idea to focus on a positive aspect in German history: The…
