Worldwide Picks: What Non-Americans Love About Life in the USA

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Museum Magic

I spent a great deal of time touring all up and down the American East Coast in my childhood, and my father took me to countless museums. I’ve also been to Museums in Europe and North Africa, and I have to say America has some of the very best museums in the world. We spent an entire week in Washington visiting the Smithsonian, Air and Space, and Natural History museums. The NASA tour in Florida. The Guggenheim in NYC. There’s a heap of small towns with world-class museums scattered all around New York State. Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame is so good even if you have no interest at all in baseball, I would still recommend seeing it. It’s that good. Not to mention Cooperstown itself is a beautiful town, like literally visiting a Norman Rockwell painting. All around Cooperstown there’s a bunch of nearby small town museums. There’s a history of fire trucks museum that goes all the way back to the 19th Century with steam-powered pumps (that actually still work). About 75 miles from Cooperstown is the home of Franklin D Roosevelt, a superb historical site. If you’re in that area, just don’t waste your time touring those silly caves that keep advertising on roadside attractions. Boring. You could spend a lifetime going through the Museums in NY. I went there for one week visiting the Guggenheim, Modern Art, and Metropolitan Arts (this was just before I started a year studying art history in college), and I barely scratched the surface.

I think one of the most underrated and most underpromoted museums in the world has got to be the Ford Museum. Unfortunately, it’s in Detroit. I haven’t seen that museum since the 80’s and I sincerely hope in that time, it hasn’t burned down or gone to the underworld. It is sincerely one of the greatest and most historically significant museums in the world. This museum holds the history of the technological revolution of the automobile. It has a massive collection of steam locomotives. Literally all the early Ford cars of the 20th century. Right next to the Ford Museum is Green Village which houses the workshops of the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison.