Travel Town Museum is a historic railroad museum in Griffith Park that was created in the 1950s and which preserves the history of California and its connection to the trains and railroads that helped build it. The museum features a big park, dozens of train cars, interior exhibits, and a train you can actually ride. […]
Museums
Santa Cruz Surfing Museum at Lighthouse Point
Santa Cruz has been a destination for surfers for much of the last century. The waves that crash along the coast provide excellent opportunities for rides, and surf culture has intertwined into the history of the city of Santa Cruz itself. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the small surf museum out on Lighthouse […]
Stagecoach Inn Museum: The Historic Grand Union Hotel in Newbury Park
The Stagecoach Inn Museum is a historic area in Newbury Park, formally known as the Grand Union Hotel, that was built in 1876. While the original building burned down in the 1970s, it was painstakingly put back together to showcase this historical point of interest to those who want to visit it. I spent an […]
3DAR Trick Art Museum in Santa Monica
Disclosure: Tickets were provided for me, all opinions are my own. 3DAR Trick Art Museum in Santa Monica is an awesome blend of art, social media, and technology. The museum is a collection of 43 different paintings that look like optical illusions to the naked eye and that come alive when you point your phone […]
Castle Air Museum: A Fantastic Aviation Museum outside of Merced
Castle Air Museum is a plane museum outside of the town of Merced in Atwater. The museum opened in the 1980s, and it currently has sixty restored World War II, Korean War, and Cold War planes on display for you to see. I got a chance to check it out last year, and I really enjoyed seeing this […]