Even more than 80 years after Elvis Presley’s birth, Tupelo in Mississippi is still dominated by memories of its most famous sons. You can still eat where “The King” loved to eat in his childhood, buy a guitar in the…
Gateway To The Blues (Tunica, MS)
If you drive the US-61 between Tunica, Mississippi, and Memphis, you just cannot miss the iconic wooden building called Gateway To The Blues which is right next to the highway. Apart from a visitors center, it houses a small, but nice…
Science History Institute Philadelphia
Just around all the National Historic sites in Philadelphia, there is a load of additional museums, which are more or less worth visiting. One of these museums, which is located right next to the Benjamin Franklin Museum, is the Science…
Tutankhamun – Treasures of the Pharao (Paris)
As part of a company event in Paris, I was able to see the Tutankhamun exhibition. Until the completion of the Grand Egyptian Museum near Cairo in 2020, a selection of exhibits are currently touring the world. The tour started…
German Blade Museum Solingen
Solingen, some 30 km Northeast of Cologne, is known as Germany’s headquarter of the knife and scissor industry. Thus, it is not too surprising that the city features a couple of places dealing with these kind of items. One of…
Platform 0 Chamberí – A Madrid Metro Ghost Station
If you use the Madrid Metro Line 1 between Bilbao and Iglesia, you will likely notice that you pass another station, Chamberí. Despite it is one of the original Metro Madrid station, it has closed its operation in 1966. However,…
The Scherz-Tour – A Different RheinEnergieSTADION Cologne Tour
I already visited a couple of stadium tours with Flyctory.com in the past. My home and heart soccer club, 1. FC Köln (FC Cologne) offers regular tour with legends of the club history. Apart from legendary referee Walter Eschweiler and…
Benjamin Franklin Museum (Philadelphia)
Founding Father of the United States, printer, author, inventor, scientist, many more… It is likely much easier to list the roles and talents, which Benjamin Franklin did not have. For example, he was never President of the United States. Despite…