The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.