History

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.