Educational

Washington DC Capitol Dome

Washington DC | Capitol Dome Tour

Editors’ Pick: Week of November 14, 2011

Historical Travel Idea: Listen to the echoes under the US Capitol Dome.

Educational Travel Ideas: Discover the unique skeletal remains at the Ashfall Fossil Beds.

Nebraska: Ashfall Fossil Beds

Educational Travel Ideas: Discover the unique skeletal remains at the Ashfall Fossil Beds.

Travel Ideas: Learn the history of the Pony Express in the Wild West remnants of St. Joseph, Missouri.

Missouri | Pony Express Museum

Travel Ideas: Learn the history of the Pony Express in the Wild West remnants of St. Joseph, Missouri.

Travel Idea: Stop by the home which inspired the poems of Robert Frost in Derry, NH.

New Hampshire: Robert Frost Farm

Travel Ideas: Stop by the home which inspired the poems of Robert Frost in Derry, NH.

Family Vacation Idea: Visit the Teton Raptor Center to learn how this special center helps birds of prey return to the wild.

Wyoming: Teton Raptor Center

Family Vacation Ideas: Visit the Teton Raptor Center to learn how this special center helps birds of prey return to the wild.

Family Travel Idea: Visit the museum of computer history in Silicon Valley in California to learn the history of computing in our society.

California: Computer History Museum

Family Travel Ideas: Visit the museum of computer history in Silicon Valley in California to learn the history of computing in our society.

Educational Travel Idea: Take the family out to Middleton Place outside Charleston, South Carolina to experience life on an antebellum plantation.

South Carolina: Middleton Place Reenactment

Educational Travel Ideas: Take the family out to Middleton Place outside Charleston, South Carolina to experience life on an antebellum plantation.

Family Travel Idea: Take the kids for an exploration of MalaMala in the Kruger National Park.

South Africa: Safari Surprise

Family Travel Ideas: Take the kids for an exploration of MalaMala in the Kruger National Park.

Travel Idea: Like trains? You'll love the Durham Museum in Omaha, the "Smithsonian of the Plains" with other historical treasures too.

Nebraska: Durham Museum

Travel Ideas: Like trains? You’ll love the Durham Museum in Omaha, the “Smithsonian of the Plains” with other historical treasures too.

Family Travel Idea: Follow the red line for an historical tour of Boston, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts: Freedom Trail Boston

Family Travel Ideas: Follow the red line for an historical tour of Boston, Massachusetts.

Travel Idea: Go to Knight School at the Worcester Armor Museum.

Massachusetts: Worcester Armor Museum

Travel Ideas: Go to Knight School at the Worcester Armor Museum.

Educational Travel Idea: Find out more about the history and future of these bloodletters -- leeches -- at a museum totally dedicated to them in Charleston.

South Carolina: Leech Museum

Educational Travel Ideas: Find out more about the history and future of these bloodletters — leeches — at a museum totally dedicated to them in Charleston.