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An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.