Library of Congress - online

My tax dollars at work.

To all my readers from outside the U.S.: no reason you can't enjoy the fruits for free.

There is so much in the way of interesting, useful, and strange information and sights to see on this website, you couldn't begin to exhaust it if you spent every waking moment here for the rest of your life.

Consider, for example, the Global Gateway on the home page.

Click on it and the world's at your fingertips.

So much here.

Priceless.

For everything else, there's MasterCard.