Travel resources

An important basic resource for travellers is the universal currency converter.

Maps can also be useful:

1. Mapquest

2. The World Factbook (from the CIA; maps and more)

3. Netstate.com (maps and more)

4. University of Connecticut Magic

5. Rand-McNally

6. Relatedly, for those who drive, U. S. Speed Traps

7. The Perry-Castaneda Library (UT-Austin) Map Collection

8. USGS National Mapping Information

9. US Census Bureau Data Access Tools

10. National Imagery and Mapping Agency

11. Hunter College (CUNY) Terrain Analysis Home Page

Other informational resources include:

1. Age of Reason's travel sites ("sites of interest to the over 50 age group")

2. Best Read Guide America

3. Epicurious

4. Fine Travel Magazine

5. Trip.com

6. How far is it?, indo.com's distance service

7. Fodor's, which offers a Personal Trip Planner

8. Literary Traveler

9. Lonely Planet

10. Pathfinder's travel sites

11. Planet Earth Home Page

12. Preview Travel Vacations.com

13. Rec.travel Library

14. Roadside America

15. 50 States.com

16. The Subway Page: Links to World Subway and Other Transportation Information Resources

17. Virtual Tourist

18. Web of Culture

19. Yahoo's travel sites

20. Bed & Breakfast Inns Online

21. weather.com

Also generally useful are Traister's food and restaurant guides and guides to art museums.

More specific sources of information include:

United States of America

• See America

• New York City

• Philadelphia

• Pittsburgh and another Pittsburgh source

• Cooperstown, NY (and see, too, a commercial site here for dog biscuits, named as it is for a good and solid reason by a person with a sense of humor, Karen A. Ogulnick, Colby '76)

• Artvoice.com (a Buffalo, NY, area arts directory); see also Buffalo.net.

• Washington, DC, and another site for Washington

• Virginia and Charlottesville

• Boston; and another site
  1. The "T"

• Massachusetts; another site; a third Massachusetts site

• Providence, Rhode Island

• See also a general New England travel site

• Discover Vermont.com; and Paul Bissex's Vermont

• Maine; Maine.info; and Welcome to Maine
  1. a special link to Maine's autumn foliage reports is supplemented by more general fall foliage information
  2. Acadia National Park and Friends of Acadia
  3. Goose Cove Lodge (Deer Isle)
  4. Alden House Bed and Breakfast (Belfast)
  5. Victoria Mansion (Portland)
  6. Greenhut Galleries (Portland)
  7. Maine State Museum (Augusta)

• Evanston and Chicago; another site for Chicago; and another

  Nebraska

  • a general site for Nebraska
  • Joslyn Art Museum (2200 Dodge Street, Omaha)
  • Durham Western Heritage Museum (in 1931 Union Pacific-built Union Station, Historic Old Market, 801 South 10th Street, Omaha)
  • Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (12 & R Streets, Lincoln)
  • Great Plains Art Museum (nearby, at Hewit Place, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln)
  • Strategic Air Command Museum (28210 West Park Highway, Ashland)
  • University of Nebraska State Museum (Morrill Hall, south of 14th and Vine Streets, Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln)
  • Thomas P. Kennard House (the oldest standing structure in Lincoln, 1627 H Street)
  • Fairview: The Bryan Museum (residence of William Jennings Bryan restored to its early 1900s grandeur; Bryan/LGH Medical Center, 49th & Sumner Sts, Lincoln)
  • Nebraska State Historical Society (1500 R Street, Lincoln)
  • Museum of the Fur Trade (Chadron)
  • Wildlife World Wyobraska Natural History Museum (10th & U Streets, in the Union Pacific Rail Depot, Gering)
  • Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (near Harrison, NE)

• Great Outdoor Recreation Pages

• Montana

• The National Park Service and, more specifically, NPS parks. NPS also maintains a site called Links to the Past. Additional sites take you to all NPS locations by name or by location (great maps, very usable), as well as to listings for national scenic rivers and national scenic trails. Some very specific NPS websites of potential interest to Traister are relatively undeveloped, providing useful basic information but little more--e.g., those provided for Arches, Bandelier, Big Bend, Bryce, Canyon de Chelly, Canyonlands, Chiricahua, Cumberland Gap, Death Valley, Delaware Water Gap, Dinosaur, Florissant Fossil Beds, Hubbell Trading Post, John Day Fossil Beds, Organ Pipe, Petrified Forest, Petroglyph, Saguaro, Shenandoah, and Zion. Sites much more full of information than these include, e.g.:
  
  
  1. Acadia National Park
  2. Carlsbad Caverns Guadalupe Mountains Association (an "unofficial" site with information about both locations)
  3. Waterton [Canada]-Glacier [USA] International Peace Park
  4. Grand Canyon National Park; see also Grand Canyon Explorer, an "unofficial" site, and its master index and glossary
  5. Great Basin National Park
  6. Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  7. Hovenweep National Monument (also an "unofficial" site)
  8. Independence National Historical Park (official site); and Independence National Historical Park (unofficial site)
  9. Joshua Tree National Park
  10. Mesa Verde National Park, as well as another site and yet another site
  11. Rocky Mountain Nature Association (an "unofficial" site associated, inter alia, with Rocky Mountain National Park)
      See also, for rail travel in the Canadian Rockies, Rocky Mountaineer Railtours.
  12. Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, NY)
  13. Yellowstone National Park; see also Yellowstone Net (a commercial site with digitized photographs of this [and some other] National Parks for sale)
  14. Yosemite National Park

• Canada maintains a similar site for its national parks.

• Traister likes the American southwest. So did Edward Abbey, about whom a Swedish fan's website provides information about the writer, his books, and the region

• Grand Circle ("vacation opportunities in this part of the Southwestern United States")

• Travel Nevada; and, more specifically, Las Vegas (and, for one of the great attractions of Las Vegas, see specifically Cirque du Soleil)

• New Mexico

• Arizona Highways (with links to a large number of Arizona local and statewide sites, as well as to other sites of general western interest)

• Los Angeles; see also:
  1. the Los Angeles Weekly
  2. Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theater
  3. The Music Center
  4. Japanese American National Museum

• San Francisco

• California (from the state's government)

• California Deserts (from the state's government)

• The Sonoran Desert

• Anza Borrego Desert State Park, Anza-Borrego Foundation, Borrego Springs, and La Casa del Zorro

• For the southwest, see, too, SouthWestern Archaeology

• See also the Aridlands Newsletter (from the University of Arizona), which has a special issue on The Deserts in Literature

• Mountain Zone

• Out West On-Line

"Abroad"

• Belgium

  1. Antwerp; and Digital Metropolis Antwerp; and CityNet's Antwerp; Antwerp hotels
     • De Vlaamse Opera (Antwerp and Ghent)

  2. Bruges; Bruges

  3. Brussels; another site
     • La Monnaie-De Munt: Belgian National Opera House
     • Musée royal de l'Afrique Centrale
     • Royal Museums of Fine Arts
     • The Jewish Museum of Belgium
     • Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
     • Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
     • Les Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH), including the Musée du Cinquantenaire and others
     • Biblioteca Wittockiana (this is not an institutional website)

  4. Flanders Coast

  5. Gent

  6. Leuven (Louvain)
  
  

• Canada (the Official Site of the Canadian Tourism Commission)

  Note that the common border means that a number of Canadian sites appear above, as well as elsewhere in this site.

  1. Parks Canada

  2. The Royal Tyrrel Museum

  3. Drumheller, Alberta; and another for Drumheller

  4. Dinosaur Provincial Park (and an alternative site for Dinosaur P.P.)

  5. Calgary

  6. Edmonton

  7. Rocky Mountaineer Railtours (and a more or less similar site)

  8. National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)

  9. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

  10. Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)
  
  

• France

  1. Paris

  2. French Government Tourist Office

  3. France; and Le Ministère de la culture

  4. Rentals in Paris -- or see also Cooper Paris Flats

  5. Lyon:
     1. Virtual Francophone Tourist: Lyon
     2. Lyon cité onLine
     3. Le City Guide de Lyon
     4. Destination Lyon
     5. Discovering Lyon
  
  

• Germany

  1. All Travel Germany
     

  2. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Köln)

  3. Kunstareal MÜnchen (the Alte Pinakothek, the Neue Pinakothek, and the Pinbakothek der Moderne)

  
  

• Great Britain

  1. University of Wolverhampton UK Sensitive Maps

  2. Britannia

  3. UK Plus

  4. Visit Britain (British Tourist Authority)

  5. Compilation sites include English Heritage, the National Trust, and Historic Scotland

  6. Pitkin Guides (UK guides)

  7. UK Travel Guide and UK Travel Guide

  8. "Stately homes" include:
     • Arundel Castle
     • Banqueting House
     • Beaulieu
     • Blackwell: The Arts& Crafts House, Cumbria
     • Blenheim Palace
     • Buckingham Palace
     • Burghley
     • Castle Howard
     • Chatsworth
     • Chawton
     • Compton Verney
     • Dove Cottage/The Wordsworth Museum (see also Wordsworth House)
     • Hatfield House
     • Holyroodhouse
     • Keats House
     • Kelmscott Manor
     • Knebworth House
     • Levens Hall
     • Longleat House
     • Mapledurham House
     • Penshurst Place
     • Royal Observatory Greenwich/National Maritime Museum
     • Sir John Soane's Museum
     • Spencer House
     • Syon Park
     • Waddesdon Manor
     • Emery Walker's House
     • Warwick Castle
     • Gilbert White's House
     • Wilton House
     • Windsor Castle
     • Woburn Abbey

  9. Pevsner Architectural Guides and The Buildings Books Trust

  10. UK Restaurants Online

  11. Real Ale and a Bed (a guide to pubs, etc.)

  12. Cambridge and Cambridge

  13. Chester and Chester Cathedral

  14. A basic guide to London can always use such supplements as . . .
      1. the truly magnificent guide prepared by Nagoya University Professor Mitsuharo Matsuoko, Mr. Weller's Knowledge of London
      2. Among more specific guides, see, e.g., that to London's East End, the subject of London Borough of Tower Hamlets -- this is a part of the world with, inter alia, Nicholas Hawksmoor's Christ Church
      3. Other venues:
         1. The Guardian has a list of UK art, music, theater, and dance venues (for both London and the rest of the UK)
         2. Academy of St Martin in the Fields
         3. Barbican
         4. English National Opera
         5. Glyndebourne
         6. [London] Philharmonia Orchestra
         7. London Philharmonic Orchestra
         8. London Symphony Orchestra
         9. London Theatre Guide
         10. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
         11. Royal Albert Hall and the proms
         12. South Bank Centre / Royal Festival Hall
         13. Royal Opera House (includes the site for the Royal Ballet)
         14. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
         15. Royal Shakespeare Company
         16. Sadler's Wells
         17. Wigmore Hall

  15. Liverpool
      1. Walker Art Gallery
      2. Lady Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight)
      3. Tate Liverpool
      4. Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King (Roman Catholic)
      5. Liverpool Cathedral (Church of England)

  16. Manchester & the NorthWest Region of England, and Virtual Manchester
      1. Manchester Art Gallery
      2. Whitworth Art Gallery
      3. Manchester Cathedral
      4. Imperial War Museum North
      5. The John Rylands Library Special Collections, Deansgate
      6. The Lowry (Salford)
      7. Bury Art Gallery (Bury)

  17. Oxford; Oxford

  18. York, Gateway to York, and City of York Council all provide information about York, with additional links to the region
      1. York Minster
      2. Jorvik Viking Centre
      3. National Railway Museum
      4. the York mystery cycle was performed (quite beautifully) at York Minster during the early summer of 2000; additional information about the plays may still be found at The York Doomsday Project
      5. Castle Howard
      6. Shandy Hall (and another site)
  
  

  And a not entirely separate place . . .

  Scotland

  1. Scottish Tourist Board

  2. The Internet Guide to Scotland

  3. Electric Scotland

  4. Historic Scotland (attractions; also Scotland guides)

  5. The National Trust for Scotland

  6. Scottish Museums Council; see specifically its Scottish Museums page

  7. Edinburgh; Inside Out Edinburgh
     1. National Galleries of Scotland (including The National Gallery of Scotland, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and The Dean Gallery: Paolozzi Gift)
     2. The Museum of Scotland
     3. The Royal Mile
     4. Edinburgh International Festival
     5. Edinburgh Festival Fringe

  8. SeeGlasgow.com; the Glasgow City Council's website is also useful

  9. Traquair

  
  

• Hungary

  1. Hungarian National Tourist Office
     
  2. Hungarian National Tourist Office, New York
     
  3. Three other informative travel sites include:
     1. Hungary.org
        
     2. Hungary
        
     3. Hungary
  4. Two sites providing varieties of background information about Hungary come from the:
     1. UK's Foreign Office
        
     2. US's Central Intelligence Agency
  5. Talking Cities: Budapest
     
  6. Welcome to Budapest
     
  7. Sites concerning Jewish Hungary include:
     Hungarian Jewish Homepage
     1. Travel and Tourism in Jewish Hungary
     2. Jewish Budapest
  8. a site for theater and opera in Budapest
     
  9. Association of Hungarian Orchestras
     
     1. the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
  10. Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum
      
  11. Kodály Memorial Museum
      
  12. Bartók Béla Memorial House
      
  13. Museums in Budapest
      
  14. Museum.hu: Homepage of the Hungarian Museums
      
  15. National Széchényi Library
      
  16. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest
      
  17. Ludwig Múzeum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
      
  18. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Hungarian National Gallery
      
  19. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
      
  20. Budapesti Történeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum), Budapest
      
  21. Aquincum (and other Roman sites near Budapest)
      
  22. Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum (Semmelweis Museum of Medical History), Budapest
      
  23. Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest
      
  
  

• Italy

  1. Italian Tourist Web Guide: The Internet Tourist Guide of Italy
     1. Ferrovie della Stato (Italian rail; English-language version)

  2. Your Way to Florence

  3. CityLife@Florence.net

  4. Welcome to . . . Florence (from Florence hoteliers David and Emanuele Abolaffio)

  5. Musei e Gallerie, Firenze (in Italian)

  6. Venezia: Official Site of the Tourist Board of Venice

  7. Musei Civici Veneziani

  8. La Fenice (Venice)

  9. Capella degli Scrovegni, Padua (Giotto frescoes)

  
  

• The Netherlands
  • Welcome to Holland
  • HotelNet Nederland

  1. Amsterdam
     • Amsterdam
     • The Internet Guide to Amsterdam
     • A Virtual Tour Through Amsterdam
     • Amsterdam Hot Spots
     • Rijksmuseum
     • Stedelijk Museum
     • Van Gogh Museum

  2. Delft

  3. Haarlem
     • Frans Hals Museum

  4. The Hague
     • Mauritshuis
     • Bredius Museum

  5. Leiden
     • Museumgroep Leiden (National Museum of Ethnology, Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Naturalis, National Museum of Antiquities, Museum Boerhaave, Sieboldhuis, Municipal Museum "De Lakenhal")

  6. Otterlo
     • Kröller-Müller Museum

  7. Rotterdam
     • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

  
  

• Spain

  1. SpanishIndex.com ("the real-spanish experience . . . without leaving your computer"); see also All About Spain, A Student Guide to Madrid and Spain (from St. Louis University), and SpanishArts.com

     1. Go Madrid
        • Prado Museum
        • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
        • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
        • Teatro Real/Fundación del Teatro Lírico

     2. Barcelona
        • City of Barcelona culture links
        • Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona's opera house)
        • Palau de la Música (Barcelona's main concert hall) and L'Auditori de Barcelona (another concert hall)
        • Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

     3. Turismo Valencia
  
  

• Asia

  1. Japan

     1. In case you never knew you wanted to visit Japan, you will learn the error of your ways when you look at Japan, my Japan!, a brilliant site maintained by the same person who maintains Mr. Weller's Knowledge of London, Professor Mitsuharo Matsuoko, above.
     
     

  2. Singapore

     1. Singapore Infomap
     2. New Asia Singapore
     3. Travel Information on Singapore
     4. S-pore.net (with maps and views)
     5. Singapore Art Museum
     6. Singapore Zoological Gardens
     7. Singapore Botanic Gardens (and the National Parks Board)
     8. Jurong Bird Park
     9. Jurong Reptile Park
     10. Sungei Buloh Nature Park
     11. National University of Singapore
     12. Nanyang Technological University

Travel aids

• Philadelphia International Airport

• Airlines of the Web is a source for airlines across the world. Airports are listed at World Airport Codes. Some useful airline URLs:
  • Austrian Airlines,
  • Air France,
  • America West,
  • American Airlines,
  • British Airways,
  • British Midland,
  • Continental,
  • Delta,
  • Lufthansa,
  • Southwest,
  • United,
  • USAir,
  • Virgin Atlantic

• Amtrak

• SEPTA