Iron Maiden......Ripley's Odditorium......Times Square.......Manhatten.

Ripley's Believe it or noy Odditorium......New York City.

Mummy......Ripley's Odditorium.....Times Square....N.Y.C.

Ripley's Believe it or not Odditorium.....Times Square.....New York City.

Another sreetsign that reads "times Square".

Streetsign that reads "Times Square"

These are just part of the pictures I took......and places I saw in Chicago.....should be more from there developed soon.

Yes...that's it....exactly....what it feels like to stand in downtown Chicago.....and look up........

Chicago Public Library.....and yes those are thirty foot high bronze ornaments on the top and corners....Awesome in person......

View of some of the exterior.....Chicago Public Library

Chicago Public Library inside roof garden.

CHICAGO

Chicago downtown street with Subway entrance....

I rode them all this trip...Chicago, New York, D.C., L.A......

Downtown Chicago

Downtown Chicago

Navy Pier.........Lake Michigan.....Chicago

CHICAGO

This huge yaught gives tours on Lake Michigan.....Navy Pier .....Chicago.

Couldn't get any good pictures of this awesome stained glass window museum....Navy Pier......Chicago.

10 foot tall ....Walking Men Statues....Waterfront Chicago.

A part of Museum Campus....Chicago

Side view of Field Museum.....and Soldier Field beyond....Chicago

Entrance to Museum Campus.....one of my favorite places.......Chicago

Columbus Statue.....Museum Campus, Chicago.

Great lunch spot.....Field Museum....Museum Campus...Chicago.

The Adler Planetarium.....Museum Campus......

shore of Lake Michigan.....Chicago.

Partial view of the Field Museum....a super sized! natural history museum...... Museum Campus .......Chicago.

Front steps......Shedd Aquarium....

Museum Campus.......Downtown Chicago....

on the shore of Lake Michigan.

Shedd Aquarium............Museum Campus......Chicago

Museum Campus...............Chicago

This is part of the Shedd Aquarium.....With downtown Chiago....

Taken from Museum Campus....on Lake Michigan......

One of the best places I've seen....(Museum Campus)

The Adler Planetarium.....Museum Campus.....Chicago

Washington D.C. was probably my favorite city because of the museums and monuments and awesome buildings.
These pictures are of just some of the places I went and show none of the national museums , archieves, Smithsonian museums, and other world class collections I had to fit into about 16 short hours of my visit.
More pictures to come....from some of the best museums in the world.

Arlington Memorial Bridge Washington D.C.

Korean War Soldiers Memorial......National Mall

D. C......very realistic and intense figures.

Viet-Nam War Memorial National Mall D.C.

Lincoln Memorial..........outside.

Lincoln Memorial........inside.

The Reflecting Pool and Washington Monument,

National Mall, D.C.

Lincoln Memorial

War Memorial National Mall D.C.

Interior of Atlantic side......War Memorial......National Mall......D.C.

Pacific half.....War Memorial.....National Mall....D.C.

The Wasington Monument.......D.C.

Looking towards Pennsylvania avenue from the Washington Monument.

Looking towards Independence avenue....from the plaza at the Washington Monument.

National Mall........a grass park area.....surrounded with museums

and full of Monuments.....The Capitol Building in the distance.

more Federal Triangle area.....a huge area with the national offices

of all our federal agencies....huge grand buildings.

Just another corner in D.C......but no matter witch way you look there are huge museums and monuments to visit on every block.

Bigger and more ornate than you can see hear....

Federal Plaza.....Wash. D. C.