Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

This fake airfield was built as a decoy to protect a real airport from the Allied Forces.

This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

Witness to Nazi occupation, this bunker has managed to soldier on to this day.

A monument marking the first airplane flights in Japan hints at the dark history behind its peaceful park setting.

This century-old, family-run bakery specializes in loukoumades, a Greek doughnut once served to ancient Olympians.

Commemorating the story of how a small Norwegian village escaped destruction during World War II.

This building was once the local office of White Star Line, the company that employed the crew on the Titanic when it sank.

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.

Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.

Inside an airport, visitors can explore this museum where history takes flight.

This bunker site once briefly used by Hitler now features locals’ accounts of German occupation.

An abandoned U.S. Navy aircraft is on display in the city that once held the biggest foreign U.S. military base in the world.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

This Ohio cemetery is home to the remains of many Confederate officers and soldiers who were once held nearby as prisoners of war.

This tiny, one-acre cemetery serves as a reminder of when the Civil War got close to the nation’s capitol.

Former Gestapo prison turned memorial museum.

Secret tunnels leading to underground facilities lurk near the remains of a World War II-era Japanese Navy airbase.

One of Oahu’s best snorkeling and diving spots was created by warm water discharged from the nearby power plant.

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.