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ENGLAND

WATSON! THE BREW IS AFOOT!

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB
Best collection of Sherlockiana and recreation of the rooms at 221B Baker Street

THE STRATFORD MAN
Literature’s greatest mystery - Did He or Didn’t He?

Museum and display of the Shakespeare birthplace, but does this well trod tourist sight hide a secret.

STEAM TRAINSPOTTING IN OXFORDSHIRE
Didcot Railway Center
Steam rail and locomotive museum for railroading enthusiasts the Didcot centre is one of England's most complete.

UP RIVER WITHOUT AN OAR
Rowing and Revolution at Henley-on-Thames

England's rowing history on the River Thames at the museum of rowing and a hotel that has been host to three kings of history.

BLENHEIM PALACE
Walk a mile in Winston Churchill’s slippers

Grand Baroque palace of 1st Duke of Marlborough, birthplace of Winston Churchill with collections.

WARWICK CASTLE
Medieval Ghosts and Love Birds

One of best preserved Medieval Castles in England with armor, historic displays and activities for families and history buffs alike.

600 YEARS OF HOSPITALITY AND HISTORY
The Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick

Half-Timbered medieval home for wounded soldiers and once the center for Warwickshire trade guilds founded by Richard II

THREE LONDON MUSEUMS FOR THE PRICE OF FREE
Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory

Nautical family activies and astronomy history at Britain's National Maritime Museum and the Queen's House.

THE CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM
A Social Conscience of Victorian England

The London House where the great author wrote Oliver Twist, letter artffacts, live readings and exhibitions.

KING TUT BLITZES LONDON O2
King Tutankhamun Royal Treasures Return to England.

BRITISH MUSEUM FIRST EMPEROR EXHIBIT
Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin until April 08.

MANCHESTER MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY
Industrial Revolution history of steam, ride the "Rocket" Replica.

LIVERPOOL - BEATLES TOWN FOREVER
Mathew Street Cavern Club to The Beatles Story.

HADRIAN’S WALL
Forts and Museums of Roman History in England's North

CHURCHILL MUSEUM AND CABINET WAR ROOMS
Museum dedicated to Winston Churchill in his underground London Command Center

THE ROYAL MEWS
British Royal Family Coaches on Display in London

OLD TRAFFORD MANCHESTER UNITED TOUR
Manchester United Football Museum and Tour

SALTBURN SMUGGLERS HERITAGE CENTER
Explore the smuggling days of the 1700's on the North Yorkshire Tees Valley Coast

YORK GHOST WALKS AND YORK DUNGEON
Scares in England’s Most Haunted City

CHETHAMS LIBRARY MANCHESTER
Unique building of curious history - Karl Marx

BEAMISH OPEN AIR MUSEUM
Journey Back in Living History in County Durham

LOCOMOTION NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM SHILDON
Stockton & Darlington Railway History County Durham

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH
War History Timeline at Manchester Salford Quays

BEATRIX POTTER'S LAKE DISTRICT
World of Beatrix Potter and Hilltop Cumbria

CARS OF THE STARS MUSEUM KESWICK
Hollywood’s Famous Vehicles in Cumbria England

LAKESIDE & HAVERTHWAITE RAILROAD
Steam Train Rides in the Cumbria Lake District

YORK NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM
Steam Locomotives and other Great Wheels

WHITBY - CAPTAIN COOK MUSEUM AND DRACULA
Resort Town on North Yorkshire Coast

ALBERT DOCK MERSEYSIDE MARITIME MUSEUMS LIVERPOOL
Liverpool's most popular attraction Albert Dock Museums of Maritime History

SEEING BIG BEN AND PARLIAMENT
Touring the Parliament and the Famous Clock Tower

IRELAND - NORTHERN IRELAND

DUBLIN’S GUINNESS® STOREHOUSE

Ireland's most Famous Brew and Dublin's Most popular Attraction

ULSTER AMERICAN FOLK PARK EMIGRATION EXPERIENCE
Scotch-Irish Heritage Center and Outdoor Living Museum Northern Ireland

THE BOOK OF KELLS - DUBLIN TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY
Ireland’s Great Illuminated Treasure

CLIFFS OF MOHER & ATLANTIC EDGE
Spectacular Sea Cliffs and Visitor Exhibit

FRANCE

RODIN MUSEUM PARIS
Art For Lovers and Thinkers

Museum dedicated to France's most famous sculptor.

PARIS PIT STOP ON THE CHAMPS ELYSÉES
L'Atelier Renault

Showplace and restaurant for France's top automaker on the famed shopping street of Paris.

NOT ALL THE ART IN PARIS IS IN MUSEUMS
But most of it is at the Louvre

The Louvre Musee Art museeum in Paris is home to 35,000 world art treasures, a magnet for families and art lovers alike.

COLLECTIONS OF THE LOUVRE
France's Galleries of Art and History

The collections and wings of art and history at the Louvre

INVALIDES NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM PARIS
French Arms and Armor Museum and Napoleon’s Tomb

PETIT PALAIS - MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS
Paris’ other best Fine Art Museum built for 1900 Worlds Fair

CARS AND TRAINS OF FRANCE
French National Rail and Auto Museums in Alsace

Magnificent steam rail and auto museums in Mulhouse

EVERYTHING'S FINE ON THE MAGINOT LINE
On site Museum display of France's defensive system after WWI is still in evidence in Alsace near Strasbourg.

VELO (Bicycle) MUSEUM SOUTH BURGUNDY
Unique museum of cycling in Southern Burgundy

HUGUES DE PAYNS MUSEUM
Knights Templar History in Champagne

CAVES OF AZÉ AND BLANOT
Pre-Historic Cro-magnon Man sites in Burgundy

FONTAINEBLEAU CHATEAU
Royal Palace, Napoleon and Military History Museums

FRAGONARD PERFUME MUSEUM AND TOUR GRASSE

Perfume history trip from Nice or Cannes.

ITALY

STONE AND ART: RENAISSANCE
Castello del Buonconsiglio

Castle Buonconsiglio Trento's official art museum with Renaissance and early Italian art including a running display of Romanino.

ROME IN RUINS - A Walking Tour

A trip to Rome can start with an orientation foot tour from the Vatican through the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum.

MILLE MIGLIA MUSEUM
1,000 Miles of Racing History

Museum of Italy's most iconclastic auto racing event still run every year.

SABBIONETA
Duke's Palace and Galleria

The statues are gone by the art of the buildings and walls remains.

ANCIENT ROME IN 3D
"Rewind Rome” at the Colosseum

Virtual 3d exhibit of life in Ancient Rome

GERMANY

WANDERING IMMIGRANTS
The Museum for the German "auswanderung" in Kaiserslautern is a unique place to visit to check up on German ancestry.

BLUE RIDER ART AND AUGUSTINER
Castle Art Museum and in the Bavarian Alps
An art museum in a Bavarian Castle featuring Kandinsky and Munter Blue Rider period in the Oberbayern region.


LUFTWAFFE MEMORIES
A STROLL DOWN HEINKEL LANE
Follow Germany's aviation history from the Deutsches Museum in Munich to the hidden Messerschmitt hangar in Augsburg.

ZEPPELIN MUSEUM
Flying Glory of the Airship at Freidrichshafen

Go aboard a replica of the ill-fated Hindenburg or fly in a real airship over the Bodensee.

NUREMBURG TOY MUSEUM
Wooden Soldiers, Dolls, Trains and Cars

200 years of toys in the famed walled city of Bavaria.

BIG GUNS AND FAT UNIFORMS
Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt
Museum for German and Bavarian military history through the ages, weapons, uniforms and artifacts, from Kaiser Wilhelm's helmut to Turkish Emperor Siulemon's campaign tent.

FOOTSTEPS OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
The German Fairy Tale Museum

THESE OVENS DON'T BAKE BREAD
The Dachau concentration camp now a holocaust museum.

MAINZ MUSEUMS
Gutenberg, Roman Galleons and Bubbly Wine

Museums of history and culture, Roman past, printing and sparkling wine in this Rhineland capital.

EUROPEAN CASTLES INSTITUTE
Philippsburg Castle

Most extensive library of castle study research and preservation of all castles and palaces across Europe in Braubach.

SPEICHERSTADT HAMBURG'S OLD WAREHOUSE CITY
History, Dungeons and Model Railroads

20 year old harbor warehouses house several museums of shipping, spice trade, model railroad, and Hamburg history.

BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM ART MUSEUM IN HAMBURG
American Art travels to Europe

One of Northern Germany's premiere art institutes presents exhibitions through out the year in Hamburg's city center.

HAMBURG PORT OF IMMIGRANT DREAMS
Ballin-Stadt Emigration Museum Hamburg

Hamburg's immigration story 1850-1934 is told in the former Hamburg-Amerika Line "Immigration City" museum.

GOLD WALL, WATCHES AND SHINY BAUBLES
The Jewelery World of Schmuckwelten Pforzheim

Jewellery exhibition emporium in Germany's Black Forest

WORLD OF STEIFF
Toy Museum history of innovations of Margarete and Richard Steiff and their famous "Teddy Bear"

ROTHENBURG MUSEUMS
Curious Christmas, Doll and Kriminal Museums in Germany's most famous Romantic Road City.

MUNICH BEER & OKTOBERFEST MUSEUM
History of Beer and a Pub in one

STUTTGART MUSEUMS
A variety of museums around the central plaza, art, history and automobiles.

GERMAN FAIRY-TALE ROAD
Brothers Grimm Museum Kassel and other stops.

THE KENNEDYS MUSEUM BERLIN
President Kennedy Family History at Brandenberg Gate

BERLIN DDR MUSEUM
Remembering Good Old East Germany Socialist Days

GERMAN TECHNIK MUSEUM BERLIN
Great Rail Collection, Aviation, Auto, and Science

WORLD'S LARGEST MODEL RAILWAY - LOXX AM ALEX
Berlin Miniature at New Alexa Center Mall

WITTENBERG LUTHERSTADT
Martin Luther House and Museum

BERLIN MUSEUM FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
Fantastic Film History at Potsdamerplatz Sony Center

PERGAMON MUSEUM
Antiquities on Berlin’s Museum Island

NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM
Hangin’ with the World's Most Famous Caveman near Dusseldorf

EISENBAHN RAIL MUSEM BOCHUM-DAHLHAUSEN
Largest Operating Steam Rail Museum in Germany

CHECKPOINT CHARLIE BERLIN MAUERMUSEUM
Secrecy and Freedom at the Berlin Wall's Museum

BERLIN MUSEUM OF KOMMUNICATION
Entertaining Robots and German Post and Telephone History

MUNICH ART MUSEUM TREASURES
Three Epochs of Art - Pinakotheks Alte Neue and Moderne

FALL OF BERLIN WALL 20th ANNIVERSARY 2009
Celebrations and Events May to November

DUSSELDORF CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS K21- KIT
Quirky Modern Art Museums of Dusseldorf

DÜSSELDORF FILM MUSEUM
German Film History on The Rhine

KING TUTUNKHAMUN IN MUNICH
Tomb and Treasures of King Tut Exhibition

MONACO

FORBIDDEN MONTE-CARLO
Monaco Grimadi Palace Secrets

BELGIUM

WATERLOO BATTLEGROUND
Wellington and Napoleon Museums

Dueling museums commemorate one of the most famous battles in Napoleonic history

FLANDERS FIELDS IN "THE GREAT WAR"
1st World War Museums of Belgium

The bloodiest battles of World War I were fought in the fields of Flanders Belgium

"BATTLE OF THE BULGE" WWII WAR SITES
Touring World War II Museums, Cemeteries & Monuments

A trail of museums battlefield monumetns in Belgium Ardennes

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS RACETRACK MUSEUM
Belgian Grand Prix Circuit History at Abbey Stavelot

SWITZERLAND

BEYER CLOCK AND WATCH URHEN MUSEUM - ZURICH
Private Collection of Time on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse

SHERLOCK HOLMES MUSEUM - MEIRINGEN
Reichenbach Falls and the "Englisherhof" Hotel du Savage

EINSTEIN HOUSE AND MUSEUM - BERN
Einstein's Apartment in Bern and the Einstein Museum

BOURBAKI PANORAMA - LUCERNE
Tourist Attraction of the Industrial Age - illustration of Franco-Prussian War

ROSENGART PICASSO KLEE COLLECTION - LUCERNE
Picasso, Klee & Classic Modernism Art Private Collection Museum in Lucerne


PATEK PHILIPPE MUSEUM - GENEVA
500 Years of Watchmaking Design and History

BUCHERER ROLLING BALL CLOCK - LUCERNE
Watchmakers Store Keeping Time in Lucerne

GLACIER GARDEN OF LUCERNE
Glacier Museum and the Ice Age in Historic Swiss House

RICHARD WAGNER MUSEUM - LUCERNE
Composers Lakeside House and Antique Musical Instument Collection

CERN: HADRON SUPER COLLIDER - GENEVA
Visit the Atom Smasher Lab Tunnel Exhibit in Geneva

AUSTRIA

VIENNA’S HOUSE OF MUSIC
Play With Sound at the Interactive Philharmonic Haus der Musik

THE EMPEROR CRYPT - KAISER'S TOMB VIENNA
Habsburg Emperors Burial Monuments

CROATIA

MUSEUM MEDIMURJE CAKOVEC - ZRINSKI CASTLE
Art and Folk History Museum in the Croatian Zrinski Dynasty Fortress

TITO’S BIRTHPLACE & CROATIAN HERITAGE MUSEUM
Open Air Old Village in Kumrovec and Marshal Tito's Birth House

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