Leipzig, Germany
Grave of Marinus van der Lubbe
Ninety years after his execution, the man accused of starting the Reichstag fire was given a final resting place.
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Leipzig, Germany
Ninety years after his execution, the man accused of starting the Reichstag fire was given a final resting place.
San Jose, California
It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.
San Jose, California
It took years to decode its mysterious messages.
Canadian, Texas
Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.
Glover, Vermont
Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.
Galveston, Texas
Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.
Creswell, North Carolina
This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.
Pendleton, Oregon
The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Masvingo, Zimbabwe
The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.
Rimrock, Arizona
This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water
Scott City, Kansas
The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.
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.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Tintagel, England
Before construction of the famous Tintagel Castle, this site in Cornwall was likely a prosperous Dark Age trading port.
Brașov, Romania
A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?
Manchester, England
It’s a street without a name, but there is a sign.
Aarhus, Denmark
At these downtown crossings, pedestrian lights show axe-wielding Vikings instead of the usual walking figures.
Kasekera, Tanzania
Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
A stone monument marks the location of the final battle of an armed uprising which had a significant impact on the creation of the US Constitution.
Madrid, Spain
This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
Tlalnepantla, Mexico
The 19th-century hacienda house is filled with Aztec sculptures.