Hannibal, Missouri’s biggest claim to fame is that it’s Mark Twain’s home town—hence the sign just below—but it also has a number of amusing signs.
And, aside from the signs and the various Mark Twain-related museums and sites, it has an outstanding collection of buildings decorated with murals.
One of the world’s best-known artists in his time, he’s little heard of today, except in his own museum
One of Europe’s great university libraries is housed in a magnificent eclectic building
In Alexandria, Louisiana, a small museum highlights Louisiana’s key role in World War II training
A visit to the small historic Montana town of Darby, in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and Lewis and Clark Country
In Lucca, Italy, composer Giacomo Pucchini enjoys a smoke, the only smoking statue I’ve seen
Florence’s fascist-era Stazione Santa Maria Novella is, at least in my view, the ugliest station I’ve seen
One of the world’s best-known artists in his time, he’s little heard of today, except in his own museum
