This is the free lite version of The Godfather I and II movie experience. The Godfather was such a successful film tha tit provided Francis Ford Coppola with an even greater opportunity for filming locations for The Godfather: Part II. The Story takes place in the 1920's through 1958. Not only was he able to film at real locations in New York, California, and sicily, but he was able to shut down an entire block of New York city's 6th Street, between Avenues A and B. Residents could not enter or ...

Welcome to the Boston Freedom trail, a historic 2.5 mile walk featuring 16 historic locations from the Boston Common to the USS Constitution. Experience Boston's role in the American Revolution and early American history dating back to the early 17th century. This in-depth tour will take you to all 16 Freedom Trail locations, with images, video, audio, and text. Visit Paul Revere's House, see where the Boston Massacre took place, visit the oldest school in America, and more. We'll also provide y...

This Sex and the City movie experience takes you through nineteen locations across Manhattan where the first film adoption of HBO's hit TV series was filmed. We'll show you where the movie was filmed, introduce the scene attached to the location, and share some interesting facts and historical information for each place. Go behind the scenes and explore from home or visit each place in person!...

Explore this short introductory tour of San Francisco featuring six locations from the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz Island. San Francisco, Spanish for Saint Francis, was founded on June 29, 1776, when Spanish colonists established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest ci...

After the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the apostles spent their time traveling southern Europe and the Middle East spreading his message. At least four of the apostles journeys brought them to Rome, where three would suffer untimely ends. At the time, Rome was the center of power and luxury, with an abundance of wealth, self indulgence, and glorious spectacles. The circuses were full of bloody shows and tales of battles where hundreds of criminals were killed for fun. These would feature pitched...

Spartacus is one of history's greatest legends. Spartacus was born in Thrace, or modern day Bulgaria, around 109 BC and was forced into slavery to become a Roman gladiator. He would later become the leader of the greatest slave army the world has ever seen. His army fought in the third and final Servile War, which started in 76BC and lasted for two years. Leading his ragtag band of gladiators, slaves and farm hands, Spartacus wandered around Southern Italy, creating mayhem and bringing into ques...

Welcome to the Hampton Roads Naval Museum! The Hampton Roads Naval Museum is an official museum of the United States Navy and reports to the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, D.C. The museum is dedicated to the study of 237 years of naval history in the Hampton Roads region. The museum assists the City of Norfolk and Nauticus: The National Maritime Center with docent training and management of the small artifact collection concerning the battleship Wisconsin. Additional financial...

New York is known for a lot of things - great pizza, Times Square, cultural diversity, and the public transportation system. However, it's also an area rich in ghostly hauntings thanks to a history filled with fires, floods, murders, disasters and disease. Step foot in New York and you enter a world that combines old, exquisitely detailed buildings of the past and modern, marvelous skyscrapers with brownstones and mansions tucked in between. In these buildings lie buried secrets of year's past t...

This tour highlights the British and Canadian sectors of Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion. A second tour covers the American sections of the Normandy invasion, to the west. To protect its western front, Nazi Germany constructed a massive defensive line, the Atlantic Wall. The battle zone stretched from Norway all the way through to the Spanish border and was fortified with gun emplacements, machine-gun nests and anti-tank pillboxes all aimed at thwarting the soldiers progress up the beache...

Monterey's long record of inhabitation--both prehistoric and in historical times--can be explored through an assortment of museums, preserved buildings, "Living History" events, and open-air walks. Whether you are a serious researcher studying early Spanish colonization of the Pacific, or a family pausing to absorb something of our locale's storied background on your way to the beach, Monterey has a resource to suit your needs and interests. Start with one of the museums, such as Pacific Hous...

Welcome to Jamestown! Jamestown is the original site of the first permanent English colony in North America. On 14 May 1607, a group of over 100 men and boys recruited by the Virginia Company of London came ashore and established a settlement at Jamestown Island. They constructed a palisaded fort there within the territory of the Paspahegh Indians, who with other Virginia Indians had frequent contact with the English. Life in the colony was brutal, and many died. Jamestown is famous for its lead...

Welcome to Historic Yorktown, Virginia. In 1691, the General Assembly at Jamestown established the city by the "Act for Ports," a piece of legislation that was designed to encourage growth in the Tidewater region. Yorktown eventually grew into an important port for exporting tobacco from local plantations and became a thriving business hub. Yorktown is best known because it was the site of the final battle of the American Revolution and the place where Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washi...

The first settlers to the Las Vegas Valley in the early 1800s were attracted by the artesian springs that made the desert bloom. They called it Las Vegas, Spanish for "the meadows." It has been a long time since travelers came to Sin City for the beautiful wildflower blooms. Today most of the 40 million visitors head straight for the Las Vegas Strip that is located just out the front door of McCarron International Airport. Our walking tour will begin at the world famous sign that welcomes those ...

Welcome to Portland, Oregon! Portland has held the banks of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers for over 150 years. It was inhabited by the Upper Chinook Indians before being settled as a port and logging town. Today it is known as the City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown or Beervana, and is home of an astonishing amount of local breweries, local cafes, parks, art and quirky neighborhoods for you to tour and enjoy. With a focus on individuality, creativity, the interesting and the innovative, Por...

Macau (spelled M-A-C-A-U or M-A-C-A-O) is one of those places that you think you may have heard of but are not really sure, but mention its sibling and everyone knows her. So it is with Macau and Hong Kong. Like Hong Kong, Macau is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Also like Hong Kong it has a rich background that mixes two very different cultures. While the two cities are connected by a high-speed ferry, that takes only an hour, The cultural aspects of the two c...