Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Boston, Massachusetts
Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
Boston, Massachusetts
This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
Boston, Massachusetts
This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.
Boston, Massachusetts
Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.
Boston, Massachusetts
The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.
Boston, Massachusetts
This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Quincy, Massachusetts
This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.
London, England
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
London, England
The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.
London, England
This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.
London, England
Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.
London, England
This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.
Canterbury, England
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
Arromanches-les-Bains, France
Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.
Bayeux, France
This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.
Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.