AFRICA
ASIA-PACIFIC
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
EUROPE
CALIFORNIA
OTHER U.S. & NORTH AMERICA
GALLERIES
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Cars
CARS OF
THE WORLD
The beautiful, the expensive, the interesting, the ugly, the battered, the abandoned, and the just plain awful.
EAST COAST
ROAD TRIPS
Interesting finds along the highway during drives to see family, and saying goodbye to an old friend.
MERCEDES-BENZ
MUSEUM
Spending a day at the Stuttgart, Germany, shrine to a legendary automobile brand. I’ve done it several times.
PORSCHE
MUSEUM
On the other side of Stuttgart is the equally impressive showcase of the history of this sports car brand.
BMW
MUSEUM
It may be a great carmaker, but the BMW brand museum in Munich, Germany, leaves a lot to be desired.
KEMP AUTO MUSEUM
CHESTERFIELD, MO.
A celebration of the Mercedes-Benz and other classic foreign makers at an impressive Midwest museum.
INDIANAPOLIS
MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Learn about a century of racing history in one place in the Hall of Fame of the famous Brickyard.
Demolition Derby
SPICEWOOD, TEXAS
DEMOLITION DERBY 2011
A rural volunteer fire department’s annual fundraiser draws a crowd of thousands to this community west of Austin.
SPICEWOOD, TEXAS
DEMOLITION DERBY 2012
Some ‘new’ cars join a few past contenders coming back for another shot at metal-crunching, mud-spitting glory.
SPICEWOOD, TEXAS
DEMOLITION DERBY 2014
Find out just how much work goes into getting a car ready for the annual Spicewood destruction derby.
SPICEWOOD, TEXAS
DEMOLITION DERBY 2014
Tommy Farrell finds a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for another win at this annual event.
SPICEWOOD, TEXAS
DEMOLITION DERBY 2015
Compact cars show just how durable they are in a marathon heat that goes on and on and on.
James Dean
FAIRMOUNT,
INDIANA
A visit to the small town where screen legend James Dean grew up, and the cemetery where he is buried.
ALONG HIGHWAY 46,
CALIFORNIA
Tracing the young actor’s final route to the site of the crash that claimed his life on a remote California road.
‘REBEL WITHOUT
A CAUSE’
Visits to a key Los Angeles location in the classic film, and to where its young stars lived and died.
Cemeteries, etc.
CEMETERIES
OF THE WORLD
Fascinating and beautiful and sometimes sad final resting places in graveyards all over the world.
NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF FUNERAL HISTORY
A Houston museum looks at traditional, historic, and downright unusual death practices. And there are classic cars too.
ST. LOUIS CEMETERY No. 1,
LOUISIANA
A visit to a historic New Orleans cemetery and the tomb of a legendary voodoo practitioner.
PIERCE BROS.
WESTWOOD VILLAGE
The final resting place of Marilyn Monroe and many other Hollywood greats in West Los Angeles.
KEREPESI CEMETERY,
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
The haunting, frightening, and humorous monuments to the dead here are an open-air museum in a park-like setting.
ARNOS VALE CEMETERY,
BRISTOL, ENGLAND
A Victorian garden cemetery that was saved by the community after years of neglect is now a stunning park too.
MACAU
CEMETERIES
The historic gravestones here tell a lot about the lives of the people they honor. Sometimes they overshare.
TARBORO
N.C.
This small town’s historic cemeteries include the grave of a young Confederate general from the Civil War.
LORRAINE AMERICAN CEMETERY
SAINT-AVOLD, FRANCE
A stop at the largest American World War II cemetery in Europe to help families I’ve never met find some closure.
