History

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.