Georgia
Torrey-West House
This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.
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Georgia
This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.
Florence, Arizona
The "Father of Arizona" tried to build a Zoroastrian fire temple on the hill where he's now buried.
Wellesley, Massachusetts
A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.
Mountain View, California
This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.
Concord, Massachusetts
The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.
Puerto Rico
On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Virgin Islands from the top of this observation tower built in the 1960s.
Globe, Arizona
A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.
Tucson, Arizona
A living museum of curated gardens honors 4,000 years of agriculture in the Santa Cruz River basin.
Parker, Arizona
One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.
Manchester, England
Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.
Hanover, Germany
After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.
Tallinn, Estonia
The first monument in Estonia that was made by an Estonian sculptor.
Farnborough, England
The lasting remains of the Balloon Section of the British Armed Forces.
London, England
The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.
Weston, Massachusetts
This historic Massachusetts tavern played a critical role in the start of the American Revolution.
Chinook, Montana
This remote Montana battlefield is the site of the Nez Perce Flight of 1877.
Le Tréport, France
Deep in the limestone cliffs of the Alabaster Coast, a German fortress built during World War II.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
Tillar, Arkansas
Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.
Washington, D.C.
This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."
Mountainair, New Mexico
The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.
Tallinn, Estonia
Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.
Moravský Krumlov, Czechia
Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.
Belgrade, Serbia
Different sections of the Zemun Fortress were built in the 14th and 15th century as a response to the advance of the Ottoman Empire.