The Acropolis is the main symbol of Athens, listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The main temple of the Acropolis is the Parthenon
Akrotiri is the ancient Minoan town, with well-preserved buildings, dating from 1500 BC and amazing wall paintings
Archaeological Museum of Lefkada (Greece)
Archaeological Museum of Lefkada represents the collection of finds of excavations, dated from proto-Greek period until the Roman era
Archaeological Museum of Pella (Greece)
The Archaeological Museum of Pella exhibits artifacts from the palace of the Macedonian kings and rich local burial, wonderful restored frescoes and mosaics
In the Archaeological Museum of Delphi there are 6 thousand exhibits, including fragments of sculptures of Apollo and Artemis, made of ivory and gold, silver archaic bull and many others
Excursion to Zeus city of Dion offers an opportunity to examine a large archaeological complex, including ruins of the temples of: Dionysus, Hera, Demeter and Isis
Ivan Aivazovsky is a famous Russian artist of Armenian descent, most famous for his seascapes. With funds earned during his successful career as an artist he opened an art school and gallery in his home town of Feodosiya
Alexander Green museum (Ukraine)
Alexander Green museum, a small one-storey house, invariably attracts tourists with sea exotic - a ship's anchor near the entrance, a ship's lantern . . .
Chekhov House-Museum (Ukraine)
Holiday in Yalta will be incomplete without a visit to the house-museum of Anton Chekhov. The number of exhibits is about 25 thousand units
Glade of Fairy Tales (Ukraine)
If you spend a vacation in Yalta with children, be sure to visit "Glade of Fairy Tales" - an open-air museum
Green museum, Staryi Krym (Ukraine)
Alexander Green Museum is a popular tourist site of Staryi Krym. It is a small one-story house with an unusually decorated exposure
Art Institute of Chicago (United States)
Art Institute of Chicago - Art Gallery – is famous for the unique collection of Impressionist paintings and works of American artists
Colonial Spanish Quarter (United States)
Colonial Spanish Quarter of St. Augustine is very much like a typical Spanish town. Windows with strong lattices, in every house - green inner courtyard with a light colonnade, fanciful balconies and roofs, with rich stucco ornaments
Ernest Hemingway Home (United States)
Ernest Hemingway Home is a cozy Spanish colonial style mansion, where the writer lived from 1931 until 1940. The exhibition, preserving the original interiors, represents personal belongings and some of his manuscripts
Field Museum of Natural History (United States)
Field Museum of Natural History has the greatest zoological and anthropological collection - some 20 million specimens
Metropolitan Museum of Art (United States)
In the permanent exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art some two million works of art are represented
Museum of Natural History (United States)
The Museum of Natural History - 25 buildings, connected between each other, where research laboratories, about 50 permanent exhibitions, and the famous library are placed
New York City Fire Museum (United States)
The exposition of New York City Fire Museum tells about the history of struggle with fire in the city from XVIII century to present days
Robie House - an outstanding monument of architecture. It was designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright (1908-1910), under the influence of Japanese architecture
Russian Village, Ninilchik (United States)
Russian Village of Ninilchik was formed back in 1820th by members of Russian-American Company. Today their descendants live here
Salvador Dali Museum (United States)
The rich collection of paintings, prints, books and photos of the master is represented in Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg
Scotty`s Castle (United States)
Scotty`s Castle- a big house in the style of Spanish ranchero became a hotel back in 1930-ies. It is one of the most important tourist centers in Death Valley
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (United States)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is considered to be one of the best collections of modern art in the world and is able to represent art of entire civilizations. For example, «Art of the African continent» or «Aztec Empire»
Dali Theatre and Museum (Spain)
It is a museum of the artist Salvador Dali in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia and one of the Spanish State’s most frequently visited museums.
Alexander Bell Museum, in Baddeck (Canada)
Alexander Bell Museum in Baddeck is a monument to the great scientist, the founder of the National Geographic Society of USA, and the inventor who gave us telephone
Fort Edmonton Park is the largest museum in the open air, devoted to the history of the city famous in the times of the “Gold Rush”
French Jesuit Mission (Canada)
French Jesuit mission is the reconstructed village of XVII century. It shows way of life of those days: houses with large vegetable gardens are filled with sprouting greenery
Hat Creek Ranch is the complex of historical buildings built in the times of fast development of cattle-breeding and agriculture. There are also a small archaeological museum
Niagara Daredevil Museum (Canada)
In Niagara Daredevil Museum one can see different dodges from self-made boats to ordinary barrels with the help of which bold spirits tried to descend down the waterfall
In the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology one can see skeletons of huge dinosaurs, living prehistoric plants of Canada, as well as fish, turtles and cockroaches
Upper Canada Village is an open-air museum, a renovation of 150 years old settlement. There are many houses with gardens, animals, furniture and tools, two churches and a school
Ancient Nubia, which occupies the northern part of modern Sudan, attracts tourists with unique monuments of the times of Ancient Egypt
National Museum of Sudan maintains a unique collection of ancient art of the Kingdom of Kush, ancient Egypt and ancient Nubia
If you have never been to Egypt, then a trip to Sudan will fill this gap. Nubian pyramids are similar, but the smaller size
Anne Frank Museum (Netherlands)
In this house during the Second World War, a girl from a Jewish family hided from deportation and wrote her diary. The original diary can be seen in Anne Frank House Museum
Gassan Diamond Factory (Netherlands)
Excursion to Gassan Diamond factory always excites a delight of tourists, because Amsterdam jewelers have mastered diamond cut already 400 years ago
Rembrandt at Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
The excursion to Rijksmuseum will be especially interesting to admirers of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). There are 21 of his best works in the museum
The collection of Van Gogh Museum consists of 500 drawings, 200 paintings and 700 letters of eminent Dutch painter. There are also kept pictures of his friends
Zaanse Schans Windmills (Netherlands)
Zaanse Schans Windmills is the museum under the open sky – the reconstruction of Dutch village of XVII century. Here one can see five old windmills
Arctic Circle Centre presents works of art, as well as marble sculptures of polar animals and stuffed animals. Here is a stuffed polar bear, the largest in Europe
Aspendos is the best-preserved ancient theater in Turkey, accommodating up to 15 thousand spectators. It is an indispensable point of all excursion routes
Ataturk and Ethnographic Museum (Turkey)
On the first floor of Ataturk and Ethnographic Museum there is a collection of Turkish folk art and crafts. On the ground - a room where in time of arrival to Denizli stayed Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - the founder of modern Turkey
The Fethiye Museum represents pieces of art and crafts of different epochs, founded in the vicinities of the city
Hagia Sophia is «The Eighth wonder of the world» and the main mosque of Istanbul. Reorganized in 15-century Byzantine sanctuary - the temple of St. Sofia
Hierapolis Archeology Museum (Turkey)
Hierapolis Archeology Museum is the ruins of the ancient city (17 km away from Denizli). The first buildings appeared here in II millennium BC
The history of city of Kadyanda has begun in V century BC. The main tourist’s attractions here are ruins of ancient tombs, temples, theater and stadium
Mersin, ancient sites (Turkey)
Mersin breathes of an ancient history. The city was founded in V-VI cent. BC. There are a lot of historical sights to see and admire there
The area of ancient Olympos is state protected National Park today. The development of mass tourism is prohibited here. Among the most interesting monuments are ancient temple doors, antique theater and medieval city walls and towers
The ancient ruins are on a fairly large area in Perge, but they worth visiting. Among them: theater, stadium, Hellenistic gate, the Roman Baths, Agora and the column street
Having vacations in Turkey, do not forget to visit the ancient city of Pinara, which was already inhabited in V cent. BC. There are a lot of temple ruins and old tombs there
The oldest of archaeological finds discovered in Xanthos are dated from VIII cent. BC. The city, which was the capital of Lycia, illustrates the connection of Lycian traditions and Hellenic influences, especially in the art of burial
The ancient city of Butrint keeps secrets of generations of its inhabitants of three millenniums - from the ancient Greeks to the Venetians
Centre Georges Pompidou (France)
Centre Georges Pompidou was built in the style of high-tech architecture. There are the Musée National d'Art Moderne – an outstanding collection of modern art, a vast public library and IRCAM - a centre for music and acoustic research
Connoisseurs and lovers of military history should not miss an excursion to the D-Day museum, located in a German blockhouse of the Second World War
Louvre is the largest art museum in the world - about 300 000 exhibits. Here are kept artistic and historical relics of France from ancient times until today and masterpieces of various civilizations, eras and cultures
Musée d’Orsay is a Museum of Fine and Applied Arts, one of the world's largest collections of French paintings and sculptures from 1848 to 1914. The core of the collection is works of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists
The Panthéon was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve. During the French Revolution it was turned into a mausoleum - a famous burial place of Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and many others
Many sights worth attention in Djemila: the temple of Septimius Severus and his wife, the forum, the Christian basilica, the Triumphal Arch of Emperor Caracalla
The most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world is the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It has 120,000 items.
Travel to Egypt is incomplete without a visit to the Papyrus Institute. It displays the various stages of the papyrus-making process.
Pharaonic Village is surrounded by trees which hide the bustle of the crowded city and provides the background for an ancient Egyptian village.
The Pyramids of Giza are one of the most tremendous architectural achievements in the history of mankind.
The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art
Kizhi – the famous ensemble of wooden architecture is a State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum
Mannerheim Line is a unique military-historic monument of Russia - a reminder of Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940
Palace of the Facets of the Novgorod Kremlin - was the first building on the territory of ancient Russia built in the Byzantine style. Now it is a museum
Excursion to Staraya Ladoga - is an acquaintance with monuments of an ancient Russian city built in 862 on the trade route “from the Varangians to the Greeks”
Сottage in Alexandria (Russia)
Сottage in Alexandria never was an official palace of the Romanov’s dynasty. It used to be a personal, private ownership of the family of Nicholas I
Jewish Ghetto (Czech Republic)
Synagogue and the cemetery are major monuments of Jewish antiquities belong to the Prague Museum of Judaica. Observing the museum exhibits is not separable from an excursion trough Jewish Ghetto
Villa Tugendhat (Czech Republic)
Villa Tugendhat is a masterpiece of German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Built in 1930 in Brno for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, the villa soon became an icon of modern architecture - it is a paradigmatic example of functionalism
Jim Thompsons Thai House (Thailand)
The former home of Jim Thompson serves as a museum showcasing Thai architecture and art. It is an example of the finest Thai residences on display in Thailand today.
The Ancient City is a park in the shape of Thailand. Historic temples and palaces are accurately recreated and placed to their corresponding geographic position in Thailand.
Kara-Tepe Monastery (Uzbekistan)
Fragments of monastic buildings and frescoes belonged to the IInd century CE are preserved in Buddhist religious center of the Kara-Tepe Monastery
Ulugh Beg Observatory (Uzbekistan)
The magnificent building of Ulugh Beg Observatory was erected in 1428-1429. Those days there was not equal in the world. Round building accommodated a great tool - marble sextant for observation the Moon, the Sun and planets
Longwood Napoleons House (Great Britain)
Those who interested in history should visit the residence of Napoleon at Longwood, where he spent his last days
Rich maritime history of the Boko-Kotor Bay and the Montenegrin coast is widely represented in the collection of famous Maritime Museum of Montenegro in Kotor
Matenadaran is the Research Institute, which study, store, and restore ancient books and manuscripts. The collection is constantly enriched by new acquisitions, findings and gifts
Persepolis - the ruins of the magnificent palace complex, built in 512 year BC. The excavations have began here in the early 30th
The building of Residenzgalerie was constructed in the early XVIII century for the Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raytenau. Luxury interiors were designed by Lucas von Hildebrandt in 1727
Robben Island prison (South Africa)
Robben Island prison, located on the island with sparse vegetation, 12 km away from Cape Town, is an open-air museum today. Excursion tours here are very popular
There are more than 4 thousands of archaeological objects and pieces of art in State Museum of San Marino
Suyab (Ak-Beshim) (Kyrgyzstan)
Suyab (Ak-Beshim) was an important point on the Great Silk Road. Thanks to the excavation, one can see the ruins of ancient fortress (X-XII cent), numerous burial mounds
Tash Rabat is the unique archaeological monument of X century AD. It seems to belong to «One Thousand and One Nights» fairy tales
The Killing Fields – the places of mass graves. During massive repressions under regime of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia was destroyed nearly a quarter of the population
Discovered in 1944, the tomb is dated about the end of IV cent. BC. The painting in the tomb is the most well-preserved works of art of the Hellenistic period in Bulgaria
