Name: Curious Traveler
Uploaded: 2023-06-30T13:01:01.000Z
Description: Remember when you were young, and you constantly asked the tough questions like: Who? What? Where? Why? and How? Well, this is your fascinating, enriching, and entertaining field trip for grownups who have never quite grown up.

Remember when you were young, and you constantly asked the tough questions like: Who? What? Where? Why? and How? Well, this is your fascinating, enriching, and entertaining field trip for grownups who have never quite grown up.

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Why constellations are backwards in Grand Central; why there is an abundance of acorns around New York; why the Great Hall at the Met resembles the Baths of Caracalla.

New York City

St. Paul's Cathedral; the City of London; why Temple Church is round; why a copy of the Magna Carta has remained at Salisbury Church for 800 years.

London

The dragon on the Welsh flag; the title Prince of Wales; the Walls of Constantinople; how King Longshanks is related to King Vortigern and Magnus Maximus; Britain's smallest church.

Wales

Why the French settled in Montreal; Paris Metro stop; why Notre-Dame Basilica is blue; Hotel de Ville; Bank of Montreal; whether there really is an archaeological dig underfoot at Place Royal.

Montreal

French Loire Valley castle; why Henry Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Edison stayed at a hotel whose roof appears to be melting; Scots-Irish immigrants create country music.

Asheville

A.B.C. Architect; Fan Tan Alley; why there is no sign above the main entrance to the Empress Hotel; "Canada's Castle."

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