Aguas Calientes, Peru
Machu Picchu Discovery Plaques
It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.
Places I've been
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Aguas Calientes, Peru
It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.
Nazca, Peru
A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.
Pisco, Peru
The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.
Lima, Peru
Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Dublin, Ireland
The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Winchester, England
A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.
Québec City, Québec
A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
Arlington, Virginia
Right next to departures—how convenient!
Chartres, France
The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Washington, D.C.
Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Waldorf, Maryland
Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
Washington, D.C.
Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.
Washington, D.C.
The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.