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The Nathan Hale Schoolhouse
East Haddam, Connecticut

Nathan Hale Schoolhouse

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.
Close up of the FDR memorial near the National Archives in Washington, DC.
Washington, D.C.

First FDR Memorial

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.
A time machine takes visitors through Colorado.
Denver, Colorado

History Colorado Center

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.
Entrance to one of the buildings
New York, New York

Cherokee Apartments

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Washington, D.C.

Historic Elevator at Potbelly

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.
A closeup of the plaque.
Bridgewater, New Jersey

The Spot Where WWI Ended

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.
Permanently Closed
A model of a three-masted ship.
Baltimore, Maryland

Fell's Point Maritime Museum

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.
Diagrams imagining what the Army's population would look like if soldiers died at the same rate as other citizens.
medicine

Florence Nightingale Was Born 197 Years Ago, and Her Infographics Were Better Than Most of the Internet's

The famed nurse was also an early practitioner of marshaling statistics to advance social causes.
Cara Giaimo May 12, 2017
Lobby of the TWA Flight Center
Queens, New York

TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Mock up of Mazarrón 2 during archaeological invstigation, National Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Cartagena,
Puerto de Mazarrón, Spain

Phoenician Ships of Mazarrón

Two 2,500-year-old Phoenician boats found on the coast of Spain, giving incredible insight into the ancient maritime traders.
An illustration from the <em>Illustrated Police News</em>, Saturday 11 May 1889.
victorian

The Victorian Belief That a Train Ride Could Cause Instant Insanity

"Railway madmen" were thought to be activated by the sounds and motion of train travel.
Joseph Hayes May 12, 2017
Judges Cave.
New Haven, Connecticut

Judges Cave

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.
Cycleway near Dorking, Surrey.
infrastructure

Resurrecting the Forgotten Bike Highways of 1930s Britain

The United Kingdom built hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes—and promptly forgot about them.
Sarah Laskow May 11, 2017
On the right, this barrel is supposed to be filled with the oldest alcohol still stored in the world, a white wine from the year 1472.
Strasbourg, France

Historic Wine Cellar of Strasbourg Hospital

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.
London, England

K2 Telephone Boxes

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.
Mexico City, Mexico

La Posada del Sol

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.
Illustrations from John of Arderne's medical treatise <em>Mirror of Phlebotomy & Practice of Surgery</em>.
medieval

The Strange and Grotesque Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books

When the edges take center stage.
Anika Burgess May 9, 2017
Ebbets Field Apartments in April 2017.
Brooklyn, New York

Ebbets Field Apartments

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.