Toronto’s Castle
Canada’s largest house — Casa Loma — is right here in Toronto! This is more of a castle than a house, really, a 98-room flight of fancy built by an […]
Toronto’s Endless Street Art
There are all sorts of reasons to visit Toronto — the food, the walkable neighborhoods, the museums — but one of the most remarkable is the street art. I know […]
Shades of New Haven
Looking for quiet amidst the hustle and bustle of Yale’s sidewalks and New Haven’s busy streets, I found a shaded oasis at the Grove Street Cemetery. This is an unexpectedly […]
150 Years of Glass
I just made my second visit to the Corning Museum of Glass! This museum is so big that it’s worth focusing your efforts on one area rather than trying to […]
The Tallest Single-Drop Waterfall East of the Rockies
Measuring the height of a waterfall turns out to be a trickier thing than I imagined, largely because it can be hard to tell where one waterfall ends and another […]
Horseheads: A Mayberry Kind of Town
I’ve just been to visit the Village of Horseheads, New York (where the population barely reaches 20,000). This is a tiny place, a blink of an eye with a disturbing […]
Lucifer Falls
One of the most remarkable places in Ithaca, New York, is Robert H. Treman State Park (sometimes called Enfield Glen by locals in the know). My mom and I spent […]
Glass Flowers & Other Wonders
For a trip to see truly unusual objects, I made a visit to Havard’s Museum of Natural History. The highlight here is the giant room that holds the glass models […]
On Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau put Walden Pond on the map by spending two years, two months, and two days living in a self-constructed cabin on its shores. He famously said of […]
Window Marvels: Boston’s Tiffany Glass
“Enter curious … leave in awe,” reads the invitation at the Arlington Street Church in Boston’s Back Bay. This Unitarian Universalist society boasts the largest collection of Tiffany windows in […]
