San Francisco, California
Maritime General Strike Mural
A unique and poignant sidewalk mural commemorates the deaths of two striking workers.
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San Francisco, California
A unique and poignant sidewalk mural commemorates the deaths of two striking workers.
Graun im Vinschgau, Italy
A 1930s defensive fortification designed to protect Italy from a German invasion.
Laclede, Missouri
The beginnings of one of America's most famous military officers.
Madison, Wisconsin
Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.
Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.
Tokyo, Japan
A tiny kissaten coffeeshop with expertly crafted coffee in an antique setting.
Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador
The historic Newfoundland outpost where the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable made landfall.
New York, New York
Perhaps the most storied New York City eatery, Delmonico’s reshaped American restaurants.
Poland, Maine
This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.
Missouri Valley, Iowa
Thousands of objects from a steamboat wreck reveal an extraordinary snapshot of American frontier life in 1865.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Feel what it would have been like to live in Gettysburg during the pivotal Civil War battle.
Turkey
Resting place and mausoleum of the founder and first president of Turkey.
Santa Maria Maggiore, Italy
The only museum in Italy dedicated to this ancient profession.
Springfield, Massachusetts
This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.
Sacramento, California
Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.
Noasca, Italy
This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.
Trenton, New Jersey
One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
This former convent is where Mexico’s last emperor awaited execution.
Groton, Connecticut
This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.
Groton, Connecticut
The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Concord, Massachusetts
The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.