The World's Most Beautiful Places
An interior view of one of many historic traditional farm and village-related buildings found in different regions of Switzerland. Located at the famous open air museum in Ballenberg, Switzerland. This particular one, was a historic wooden hay barn. Traditional tools for handling the hay, such as a completely wooden pitch fork are on display for visitors to this cultural park.
A sandstone carving of a woman on an exterior brick wall of the Howard mansion in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The home is the location of the Howard Steamboat Museum, which illustrates the accomplishments of the Howard Family and the Howard Ship Yards, which eventually became Jeffboat, a well known business in Jeffersonville for decades. Howard Ship Yard constructed more than 3000 boats, and its successor is the largest inland shipyard in the United States.
The mansion itself is of Victorian architectural style and is located along the waterfront of the Ohio river. Its interior stairway is a replica of the stairway of the steamboat J. M. White.