Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

The final resting place of "Mother Kofi," a Black minister who was assassinated in the middle of a sermon.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

Curated with the cooperation of the passengers and their families, this museum tells the story of the 29 victims and 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

This man's death led (indirectly) to Vermont's independence in 1777.

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

Final palace complex of the last of 29 Kokand rulers.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

The only 'battle' in the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio set the stage for a persistent state rivalry.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

The birthplace of the first author to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and poetry.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

Overshadowed by the theme park opposite it, this small museum explores a major moment in American history.

This statue celebrating early Hollywood is largely forgotten, while its twin replica at Walt Disney World has become an icon.

A museum capturing one of the world's most famous classical composer's battle with hearing loss.

One of the world’s most powerful corporations was established on a random Albuquerque street corner.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

How did 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes become so beloved in Paraguay?