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Gods House Tower

Southampton, England

Gods House Tower

A prison, gun store and more over its life, the history here is fascinating over three floors.

Castle exterior

Cork, Ireland

Barryscourt Castle

One of the finest surviving Irish tower houses, with 17th-century cannonball scars still lodged in the wall above the entrance.

The tomb

Dorgali, Italy

Tomba Dei Gigante S’Ena e Thimes

It is an ancient giant’s grave!

The serving window during opening hours

London, England

Leadenhall Wunderkammer

Tucked away amongst Leadenhall Market’s cobbled passageways is a whimsical little (literally) attraction.

View of the tower

Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Laredo’s Palace

An eclectic and whimsical building, the product of its creator’s imagination.

North Star Suite

Chilliwack, British Columbia

Hazelnut Inn

The guest rooms in this hotel are a tiny castle, a ship built into a tower, and an underground burrow.

Chess set

Kuji, Japan

The Kuji Amber Museum

You can fulfill your childhood dream of becoming a paleontologist by digging for your own amber fossils.

Paine House Museum

Coventry, Rhode Island

Paine House Museum

A former Colonial home and Inn, restored and furnished in the period-style.

Menorah and information board

Rīga, Latvia

Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum

A somber place of memory and reflection, that tells the story of Riga's Jewish community before and during World War II.

Chapel of Expiation

Paris, France

Chapel of Expiation

This funerary monument to the guillotined king and queen of France became a political lightning rod and a site of pilgrimage for French monarchists.

The restored Gold Rush Cabin overlooking the Yukon River in Dawson City.

Dawson City, Yukon

Gold Rush Cabin

A surviving Klondike Gold Rush-era log cabin that was dismantled log by log to save it, and can still be stayed in today.

Üç Haclı Kilise

Çavuşin, Turkey

Üç Haclı Kilise

A 1600-year-old church carved into the rock, with painted frescoes from 900.

18th Century Pirate’s Jolly Roger

Portsmouth, England

18th Century Pirate’s Jolly Roger

This genuine, blood red Jolly Roger was captured off the North African coast in 1790 by Admiral Richard Curry.

Adam and Eve House

Nice, France

The Adam and Eve House

The last remaining example of a painted house from the medieval period in Nice.

Building

Woodside, California

The Mountain House

Nestled among towering redwoods on Skyline Boulevard, the Mountain House combines over a century of California history with a warm, rustic atmosphere that makes every meal feel like a getaway.

Methuselah Tree (Redwood)

Woodside, California

Methuselah Tree (Redwood)

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

Ebenezer Scrooge’s Gravestone

Shropshire, England

Ebenezer Scrooge’s Gravestone

A grave from the past became Ebenezer Scrooge’s grave from the future in the 1984 production of “A Christmas Carol.”

A small square at Schnoor Quarter

Bremen, Germany

The Schnoor

This is Bremen’s oldest historic district, famous for its labyrinth of narrow medieval alleys lined with tiny, colorful 15th-century houses that resemble beads on a rope.

Palm Temple

Bristol, England

Palm Temple

This kaleidoscopic structure is perhaps Bristol’s most unusual temple

Durham Town Hall

Durham, England

Durham Town Hall

Discover the unique history of Durham from the 14th century to the present day.

A river bank.

Williamsburg, Virginia

Chickahominy Riverfront Park

This park offers one of the easiest ways to paddle into a Chesapeake landscape that has looked much the same for centuries.

Sponsored By Visit Williamsburg
Exterior of a colonial home

Yorktown, Virginia

Nelson House

Yorktown’s grandest colonial home still wears the scars of the siege that helped end the American Revolution.

Sponsored By Visit Williamsburg
People walking along a beach.

Williamsburg, Virginia

Fossil Beach at York River State Park

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

Sponsored By Visit Williamsburg
Visitors can explore reconstructions of the cabins of early community residents.

Williamsburg, Virginia

Freedom Park

Amid miles of wooded trails lies the story of one of America’s earliest free Black communities.

Sponsored By Visit Williamsburg
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