Kupr, Sierra Leone
Bunce Island
Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.
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Kupr, Sierra Leone
Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.
Bedford, Virginia
This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.
Mexico City, Mexico
The art on the walls of the Mexican Electricians' Syndicate pulls no punches in its messages against capitalism and authoritarianism
Madrid, Spain
This peculiar device allowed pianists to exercise their fingers
Basrah, Iraq
Saddam Hussein’s abandoned 1980s mega yacht is scuttled in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, its name meaning “The Victor”
Natick, Massachusetts
The first Bible to be printed in the Western Hemisphere which was once used for colonization, has now become an important tool for reclamation
Medford, Massachusetts
The preserved historic home of the largest slave-owning family in Massachusetts serves as a memorial and a testament to the history of enslavement and abolition in the state
Takatsuki, Japan
A reconstruction of where terracotta funerary figures were produced in ancient Japan
Signal Hill, California
Here began Southern California's oil boom over 100 years ago
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
This historic site was where the renowned civil rights activist spent the first five years of his life
Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany
Inside the Herxheim museum can be seen the horrifying remains of what were probably the victims of acts of prehistoric mass cannibalism
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Vintage steam trains that still run through a pre-Civil War tunnel
Riverside, California
A living museum documenting the history and produce of California's citrus industry
Greenville, Ohio
A small town museum celebrates the history of the Ohio county that produced Annie Oakley and other famous figures.
Dyess, Arkansas
The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.
Marietta, Ohio
Home to several unusual artifacts, including a huge painting of George Washington.
Kent, Ohio
This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.
Marietta, Ohio
One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.
Ioannina Island, Greece
A museum inside a Byzantine island monastery.
Hatteras, North Carolina
An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
Washington, D.C.
National Mall monument to the inventor of the screw propeller.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
The Decoy Capital of the World.