The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

This replica oil derrick stands where a tiny Kansas town struck big in 1852, kicking off America's biggest oil boom.

This rural roadside cross marks the farthest point of Coronado's expedition, and the place where the Catholic faith first came to America.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

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

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

The 34th governor of Kentucky was sworn into office while on his deathbed after being shot outside the State House.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

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.