On the Pyongyang subway, journalists were permitted to ride between the same two stops that are always opened to tour groups.
The midcentury-modern building, a former department store erected in 1962, includes two floors of exhibits totaling about 150 cars, plus an underground vault of some 300 stored cars that only recently opened to public tours.
For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2. Now, however, it has formally opened to boating tours, specifically kayaks and canoes.
Doris had converted them into indoor display gardens that were open to tours.
And Studio Babelsberg, which turns 100 this year, is back in the film business (much of the recently wrapped film "Cloud Atlas" was shot there) and is open to tours.
Down the road, the old Kearney home is no longer open to tours, a pursuit that didn't bring much income.
It was open to tours, but closed earlier this year because the Metropolitan District Commission, which owns it, had difficulty arranging for live-in caretakers and interpreters; it may reopen next spring.
Abandoned for decades with only vandals to inhabit it, it's now open to tours by day and a haunted house by night, meaning you can measure your visit to match your comfort with vast fortresses and pitch-black cellblocks that were once home to murderers.
And in March, the glass-and-rusted-steel complex opened to the public for tours of its elegant cantina and grounds.
After Presley's death in 1977, his city mansion and burial site, Graceland, became a shrine (opened to the public for tours in 1982).
