A state of the art museum that tracks the historic plight of the free press has opened its doors in Washington.
Student travel has long been associated education, but the newly-built Newseum promises to give its visitors a stark insight into the most extreme on-the-job experiences the industry throws up.
Sections of the Berlin Wall, a bullet-ridden car and, perhaps most controversially, the mangled metal broadcasting tower that once sat on top of the World Trade Centre are just some of the items on show.
It also seems apt that the museum is located in such close proximity to the White House along Pennsylvania Ave, long-championed bastion of democracy and the free world.
The Newseum executive director described the new tourist spectacle as "dedicated to free speech, free press and free spirit".
This spirit is unmistakably overstated in the 25-metre marble engraving of the US constitution First Amendment.
But this interactive attraction is not the first effort to cement the plight of the tourist in the public eye as there is another smaller, now closed version based in Arlington, Virginia.
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