History

This small fort played a huge role defending Puerto Rico’s capital city.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Following years of secrecy, the hidden history of a World War II site is being brought to light.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

This century-old street sign is a forgotten remnant of the old city.

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.