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La Estancia
Caracas, Venezuela
Originally a colonial style coffee house owned by Bolivar’s family more than two centuries ago, La Estancia is currently a small but attractive museum nestled between splendid gardens. The museum contains some striking works of modern art – photography, 3D animations, graphics arts, industrial technology design, all inside rooms with traditional hacienda décor and illumination. The museum ...
National Museum of Yemen
Sanaa, Yemen
Address: al-Tahrir Square Timings: Saturdays to Thursdays 9am to 12noon, 3pm to 5pm. Fridays 9am to 12pm only Entrance: YER 500 Housed inside a former palace known as the Dar-as-Sada (House of Happiness), this is the place that offers you an overview of how Sana'a came to be, how it has survived the several dynasties that ruled over it, and why the skyscrapers still stand tall today as...
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, United States
Today the Manhattan skyline consists mostly of luxury apartments and condominiums. It’s nigh impossible to find cheap housing, especially if it is not subsidized by the city; but 150 years ago Manhattan was home to some of the world’s worst slums. Poor workers and immigrants were packed like sardines into unsanitary mid-rise buildings, which became known as tenements. In 1865, as many as 50...
Cave of the Seven Sleepers
Amman, Jordan
In the year 250AD, Christians throughout the Roman empire were being persecuted. According to legend, seven men were accused of accepting Christianity. Rather than fighting the charges, they donated all their worldly possessions and retreated to a cave to pray. The men fell asleep, and Roman authorities sealed the entrance. Two hundred years later, long after Christianity be...