History

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

The abandoned remains of this once-thriving hotel looms over the city, awaiting an uncertain future.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.