Freetown, Sierra Leone
Gateway to the Old King's Yards
Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.
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Freetown, Sierra Leone
Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.
Lanzo D'intelvi, Italy
The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.
Yorktown, Virginia
Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.
Yorktown, Virginia
The location where the American Revolution ended.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.
Boston, Massachusetts
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Boston, Massachusetts
This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.
Poteau, Oklahoma
Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."
New Orleans, Louisiana
A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.
Hardo Rattan, India
On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.
Oman
These gnarly desert trees produce the prized aromatic resin traded along the ancient incense trail.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Cape Town, South Africa
A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.
Cape Town, South Africa
From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.
Cape Town, South Africa
This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.
Belfast, South Africa
A brutalist war memorial piercing through the rolling farm landscape.
Tamanrasset, Algeria
A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.
Adair, Iowa
Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
Venice, Italy
Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.