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Ford’s Theatre was opened in 1861 as a venue hosting stage productions. It is best known for the infamous shooting of President Abraham Lincoln. On the evening of April 14, 1865, the president was at Ford’s Theatre to view a performance of the comedy Our American Cousin when John Wilkes Booth—an actor who often worked the theater’s stage—shot Lincoln in the head. Lincoln was taken

Guy Selga Jr., coauthor of The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland, takes us inside Club 33 at Disneyland. Club 33 is Disneyland’s members-only restaurant that is hidden in plain sight on the upper levels of the park’s New Orleans Square area. Membership requires entering your name on a waiting list—and then paying thousands of dollars for the privilege. I’m a simple

Beth Blair, author of The Unofficial Guide to Mall of America, shares with us what’s new at this shopping destination. 2016 was an exciting year for Mall of America (MOA). Phase II continued its rollout with announcements of new shops and restaurants. MOA partnered with Uber so shoppers no longer have to worry about parking. Pick-up and drop-off is on

The NASA bosses were smart enough to know that once the space shuttle program ended in 2011, the vehicles themselves would be in huge demand. Most of the shuttles were doled out to various museums, but the Space Shuttle Atlantis, which touched down July 21, 2011, after flying the last of its 33 shuttle missions, was put on display at the Kennedy Space Center beginning

South Pacific Tropics are Re-created at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort will be the place we’ll retire to if we ever hit the lottery. With its tropical landscaping, well-appointed rooms, and good on-site restaurants, it’s one of the few Walt Disney World resorts where you could skip the parks entirely and be perfectly content just exploring the grounds. Everything about the Poly (as it’s known