Places tahoff20976 Wants to Go

This old brick building has held everyone from prisoners of war to freedom fighters during its turbulent history.

The propeller from the first steamship launched on Lake Tanganyika.

This little-known colonial road helped determine the Zambia-Tanzania border.

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

A medieval tower with a suspended iron cage used as an open-air jail for criminals who were exposed as a warning.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

A remote monument to one of the fiercest battles fought by the Victorian British Army.

Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

This 19th-century prison once held Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz, writer Frank O’Connor, and a nine-year-old pickpocket.

From grand battles to daily life, this Spanish museum offers a view of world history in miniature.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

Dating back to the 500s, these stones include some of the oldest Christian memorials in Scotland.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Just off the city’s central station hides a quaint lamp-lit alley into medieval Elsinore.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

One of the world's largest collections of medieval religious art.

This extensive collection covers thousands of years of Polish military history.