Ian Strathcarron, in Innocence and War, visits the stations along the Via Dolorosa. He notes that the reported House of the Wandering Jew is not in the current guides' itinerary and apparently has not been for some time. In fact, he can find no reference to it's ever having been there.

Ian Strathcarron, in Innocence and War, notes that what Twain referred to as the Mosque of Omar was actually Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Aqsa is actually Temple Mount.