The Henry Ford & Greenfield Village Guide

Just outside Detroit in Dearborn, the Henry Ford is one of the greatest history museums in America, and it holds the actual objects, not replicas: the bus Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on, in December 1955, which you can board; the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in at Ford’s Theatre; the limousine John F. Kennedy was riding in in Dallas; the Wright brothers’ bicycle shop; and Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory, moved here brick by brick. Next door, Greenfield Village is an 80-acre outdoor town of relocated historic buildings where you ride a Model T and a steam train. It’s a full, humbling day inside the machinery and the moral history of the country at once.