History

This community museum preserves the largest collection of Coal Age fossil plants in Maritimes.

After a battle with Congress, Webb C. Hayes installed the gates of the White House on the fence of his father's Presidential Library and Museum.

A strategically positioned fortress that protected the Fazana channel has found new life as a place for theater.

An unconventional monument to one of America's largest landowners.

The oldest tourist graffiti in the world helped archaeologists identify the Pyramid of Djoser.

The history of Reykjavik told through a historical village and live actors.

A slope with a mysterious name recalls a discontinued pre-war energy drink.

Once the center of Gold Rush mania, now the starting point for the Yukon Quest sled dog race.

This reconstructed castle was once the base of the “Devil King” who almost united the feudal warring states.

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

In a shopping arcade, a modernized temple deeply tied to feudal Japan’s prominent warlords.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

The oldest building in Hargeisa survived the 1988 bombings that destroyed some 90 percent of the city.

Inspired by the work of a German artist, these brass installations commemorate the lives of enslaved Vermonters.