U.S. Travel

A girl looks at Dalí paintings in a museum.

30 Salvador Dalís are tucked away inside an Atlanta-area strip mall museum

The rebranded Mimms Museum of Technology and Art has a remarkable collection of Dalí’s graphics amidst a trove of technology artifacts.

Several people, including children, hover over an interactive display in a dim room.

USS Midway Museum debuts ‘top secret’ exhibit on Navy intelligence

The USS Midway once served as the backbone for naval intelligence in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The USS Midway Museum’s new exhibit takes guests through the day-to-day of the naval intelligence specialists behind the operations.

A MiG-21 fighter jet covered in colorful glass beads.

Millions of glass beads turn Cold War-era Soviet fighter into art at the Museum of Flight

“The aim of ‘The MiG-21 Project’ is to take the most mass-produced supersonic fighter aircraft and to turn it from a machine of war into something that looks beautiful and changes the meaning of it,” South African artist Ralph Ziman said in a statement launching the Seattle exhibition.

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230303-N-MW880-1013 ADRIATIC SEA (March 3, 2023) Tom Cruise addresses the crew on the 1MC during a visit to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), March 3, 2023. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Samuel Wagner)

Tom Cruise really did get a US aircraft carrier for this mission

For his new ‘Mission Impossible’ movie, Tom Cruise and the crew filmed aboard the USS George H.W. Bush.

People battle with light sabers on trampolines at OutpostX in Beryl, Utah.

Leave the world — and the galaxy — behind at sci-fi-inspired outpost in Utah

OutpostX in Beryl is a whole lot of nothing, and that’s by design. Imagined as a “postapocalyptic sanctuary,” the retreat covers 240 acres.

A woman holds a glass of beer in a brewery.

Navy subs and nuclear secrets: The riveting history of California’s Mare Island

The secrecy-shrouded past of the San Francisco Bay’s Mare Island dates from the Civil War to its decommissioning in the 1990s. It now has scenic hiking areas and newer commercial enterprises that moved in once the Navy left.

A view of the giant lobster in front of Rain Barrel Village, Islamorada, Fla.

Rain Barrel Village gives visitors a taste of old Florida and a photo op with a giant lobster

Located on Islamorada island, the Village, which serves as a home for artists and art sellers in the Florida Keys, promises visitors a unique experience filled with paintings, sculptures, jewelry, clothing, handcrafted goods and island-inspired souvenirs.

The exterior of the Masonic Temple at 1 N. Broad Street in Center City, Philadelphia.

Philly’s own ‘Temple of Doom’ has fossils in the floors, stars in the ceiling and an Egyptian room

For a small fee, you can tour Pennsylvania’s headquarters of the Freemasons, a cathedral-like building that has more symbolism in it than a Dan Brown novel, more thrones than Buckingham Palace and more paintings of old white guys than in the “America’s Presidents” collection at the National Portrait Gallery.

A view from inside Universal Epic Universe’s Celestial Park.

Universal Epic Universe is here

The Miami Herald got a preview of Universal’s third theme park in the Sunshine State — fourth if you count Volcano Bay water park — and the first major park in the Orlando area in 26 years. It opens to the public May 22.

Columbia River Gorge from Vista House, Crown Point, near Corbett, Ore.

Natural and urban gems abound in a Pacific Northwest vacation

Highlights from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer’s five-day trip to the region.

People pet an armadillo and capybaras at the Capybara Cafe in St. Augustine, Fla.

Giant rodents cuddle with visitors at the Capybara Cafe in Florida

Since opening its doors in October in downtown St. Augustine, Fla., near the Flagler College campus, hundreds of animal lovers have visited the site to give the semiaquatic South American relative of the guinea pig head scratches.The café was created to financially support the Hastings, Fla.-based nonprofit Noah’s Ark Sanctuary Inc., an animal refuge.

Inside the new planetarium at Tampa’s MOSI, Museum of Science and Industry.

Tampa’s MOSI debuts new 8-story dome theater, second largest in country

Students from several Hillsborough County schools got to attend the first field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry’s new planetarium, located in the facility’s former IMAX theater, March 31. The old IMAX theater’s screen has been replaced by a high-tech porous metal NanoSeam screen that shows supersharp images —powered by 10 huge digital Christie projectors that have 8K technology — creating a brighter movie experience than has ever been seen in the Tampa Bay area, MOSI leaders said.