Jennifer Billock

Jennifer Billock

 

Jennifer Billock is an award-winning writer, bestselling author, and editor. She is currently dreaming of an around-the-world trip with her Boston terrier. Check out her website at jenniferbillock.com.

La Bodeguita del Medio, where Hemingway preferred to drink his mojitos.

Follow Ernest Hemingway’s Footsteps Through Havana

Sixty-five years after nabbing a Nobel, many of Papa Hemingway’s favorite haunts are still open to the public

A fully formed dinosaur tooth found in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Want to Dig For Dinosaur Bones? Join the Pros at These Spots

These museums and companies around the country pair the public with paleontologists to uncover buried bones

Fishermen in Milwaukee during the salmon run.

Milwaukee’s Secret Salmon Runs

In the spring and fall, watch huge salmon fly up two rivers in Milwaukee to spawn with the city as a backdrop

Mining amber at the Kaliningrad Amber Combine in Russia

Follow the Ancient Amber Road

See the remnants and relics of key routes between Venice and St. Petersburg for transporting amber through the ancient world

Peterhof Palace.

From Nazi Prisons to Cat Sanctuaries, Explore the Many Lives of These Russian Palaces

Follow the footsteps of doomed royals and revolutionaries through these architectural marvels

Bobbleheads of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League teams

Visit the World’s Only Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum

The Milwaukee attraction showcases the oldest and rarest of all the bobbleheads—and thousands more

The surf break at Waikiki Beach, where the modern form of the sport began.

Learn to Surf on the Break Where It All Began

Waikiki Beach on O'ahu is the home of surfing—and you can take lessons there too

Nantucket harbor

Follow Herman Melville's Footsteps Through Nantucket

The writer visited the island off of Cape Cod only after he penned <em>Moby Dick</em>

A piece of locally painted art on display at the Marriott Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

Explore Port-au-Prince's Triumphant Art Scene

Haiti's capital city may still be recovering from the destructive earthquake that struck in 2010, but its art community is thriving

Located in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island is the site of a former prison.

Five of the Most Fascinating Prison Museums in America

From Alcatraz to Cell Block 7, these jails now hold tours instead of prisoners

Petroglyphs at the Reef Bay Trail in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Eight Spots in the United States Where You Can See Petroglyphs

There are rock carvings and paintings in some unexpected locations around the country

A scene from Verdi's opera Rigoletto during a photo rehearsal on the lake stage as part of the Bregenz Festival. The premiere will take place on July 17.

There's a Massive Jester Floating on Austria's Lake Constance

Each year at the Bregenz Festival, a set designer creates an elaborate opera stage on the water

Wyoming women voting.

Women Have Been Voting in Wyoming for 150 Years, and Here Is How the State Is Celebrating

To mark the anniversary, Wyoming is delivering an impressive lineup of events, from a reenactment of the first vote to female-focused exhibits and retreats

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day: "Full victory—nothing else" to paratroopers in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe.

Eleven Museums and Memorials Honoring the 75th Anniversary of D-Day

These events and exhibits shed light on the experiences of soldiers during the invasion of Normandy and the remainder of World War II

Main Street in Deadwood, South Dakota.

See the Real Deadwood

From gunslingers' graves to gold mines, the South Dakota city—and inspiration for the new 'Deadwood' movie—is steeped in Old West history

Smoked paprika, the finished product.

The Smoked Paprika Museum in Spain Honors a Family Tradition

In Extremadura, entire families participate in harvesting peppers and making smoked paprika

The museum worked with San Francisco ad agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners to feed hundreds of news interviews, quotes from Dalí's autobiography and other written works, and archival video footage into an artificial intelligence system to recreate the artist.

With a Little Help From A.I., the Dali Museum Brings the Famed Surrealist to Life

Visitors to the museum in St. Petersburg, Florida can meet Salvador Dalí “in person”

The Red Caboose Motel.

Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad by Sleeping in a Train Car

These authentic cabooses, mail cars and train cars from U.S. railways have been converted to sleeping quarters for train fanatics

The Awakening, February 20, 1915 Chromolithograph

Nine Women’s History Exhibits to See This Year

Museums around the country are celebrating how the contributions of remarkable women changed everything from human rights to mariachi music

Smoke and flames rise from Notre-Dame Cathedral on April 15, 2019.

Last Night, I Watched Notre-Dame Burn

Our own travel writer, in Paris yesterday, recounts her experience witnessing the devastating fire at the cathedral

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