Abbeville, Alabama
Rosa Parks Childhood Home
The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.
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Abbeville, Alabama
The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.
Nagoya, Japan
The location of the site of one of the defining battles of feudal Japan is being fought over by two neighboring cities.
Southampton, England
This little-known wall in Southampton stands as one of the most unique and personal monuments to D-Day.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Chicago, Illinois
Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.
Paris, France
The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.
London, England
With a history stretching back to the 16th century, this pub has a few stories to tell.
Wading River, New York
This house was used by the FBI to broadcast disinformation to the Nazis during World War II.
London, England
These remnants of Old London Bridge possess unique acoustics that allow for whispered conversations to carry from one side to the other.
Chicago, Illinois
Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.
Alexandria, Egypt
This memorial park is also the original site of Queen Cleopatra’s Caesareum, whose pillars now stand in London and New York.
Memphis, Tennessee
The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.
Maralinga Tjarutja, Australia
This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.
Belgrade, Serbia
Memorial to the 89 children killed during the NATO bombing of Serbia.
Frankfurt, Germany
Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.
Wellsville, Kansas
Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.
Glasgow, Scotland
One of the city's oldest pubs displays a skull said to belong to the country's last witch burned at the stake.
Toronto, Ontario
The Salvation Army's monument to those who lost their lives in a 1914 shipwreck near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
Jackson, Mississippi
This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.
Southampton, England
Dedicated to the five postal workers who died aboard the doomed ocean liner, this plaque was made from a spare propeller from the Titanic.
Belgrade, Serbia
A NATO bombing took the lives of 16 civilians in 1999—the ruins remain in the center of Belgrade.
Montevideo, Uruguay
Curated with the cooperation of the passengers and their families, this museum tells the story of the 29 victims and 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
Buffalo, New York
This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.