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This has the ''Room where it happened!"

England

Southwick House

This was Allied HQ during D-Day! Eisenhower was there and you can visit the ACTUAL MAP he looked at on that day.

Ford on a sunny day.

Portland, Maine

John Ford Statue

The master of westerns can be found in...the coastal city of Portland?

Plaque

Glasgow, Scotland

Absolute Zero Discovery Point

On this spot Lord Kelvin allegedly discovered absolute zero.

LSU Campus Mounds

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LSU Campus Mounds

These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.

Bonnie and Clyde Death Site

Gibsland, Louisiana

Bonnie and Clyde Death Site

Historical marker at the spot where Bonnie and Clyde were killed.

Williamsport’s Carl E. Stotz created a smaller field for younger baseball players.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

Original Little League

See the place where little league baseball was born.

Graves of the fallen

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Luxembourg American Cemetery

Cemetery honors Americans who died during WWII and is the resting place of Gen. George S. Patton.

The Gettysburg Beyond the Battle Museum shares the area’s prehistoric history as well as its Civil War significance.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Beyond the Battle Museum

Feel what it would have been like to live in Gettysburg during the pivotal Civil War battle.

Bar of Ritz Hotel, París where Hemingway and Fitzgerald met

Paris, France

Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

The Old Man and the Cat (Ernest Hemingway)

Walloon Lake, Michigan

Ernest Hemingway Sculpture

The renowned author spent 22 summers of his early life along the shore of Walloon Lake.

Some names were clear as day, Eddie Meyer engraved the date, name and location

Southampton, England

The D-Day Wall

This little-known wall in Southampton stands as one of the most unique and personal monuments to D-Day.

This building is a re-creation of the Main Gate used during the Los Alamos Project.

Los Alamos, New Mexico

Main Gate Park

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

Shows from Game of Thrones to Outlander have also been filmed here.

Doune, Scotland

Doune Castle

The castle that provided the setting for much of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' is now a pilgrimage site for fans.

The 1000 Islands Tower

Lansdowne, Ontario

1000 Islands Tower

This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

C. A. Nothnagle Log House

Gibbstown, New Jersey

C. A. Nothnagle Log House

The C. A. Nothnagle Log House stands as the oldest surviving log cabin in the United States, offering a remarkable glimpse into America's colonial past.

Glasgow's "Stone of Destiny"

Glasgow, Scotland

Glasgow's "Stone of Destiny"

Some believe that the stone once used to coronate Scottish kings resides inside this bar.

Closer view of the blockhouse.

Kittery, Maine

Fort McClary State Historic Site

Despite its extensive history, this fort saw little to no combat.

Blériot Memorial

Dover, England

Blériot Memorial

A granite plane marks the site where a French aviator completed the first airplane flight across the English channel.

La Dame de Trévières

Trévières, France

La Dame de Trévières

Inaugurated in 1921, this is one of many statues in France dedicated to the people who died during World War I for their country.

Penn Dixie Fossil Park

Blasdell, New York

Penn Dixie Fossil Park

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

World War I Training Trenches

Edinburgh, Scotland

World War I Training Trenches

These trenches were used to train the Scottish military for life on the frontlines of World War I.

Statue of a soldier running up the beach.

Bedford, Virginia

National D-Day Memorial

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

Site of 'Jingle Bells' Composition

Medford, Massachusetts

Site of 'Jingle Bells' Composition

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

Damage to the rear of the tank

Bastogne, Belgium

McAuliffe Memorial and Sherman Tank

Dedicated to the American general whose reply to a German demand for surrender was simply "Nuts!"

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