Colonialism

This restored colonial house was once home to the botanist responsible for bringing avocados to the U.S.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.