Built in 1723, this church, Boston’s oldest, played a role in Paul Revere’s famous ride on April 18, 1775.
This memorial, dedicated in 2004, honors the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II (1939-45).
Hoover Dam was built during the Great Depression, between 1931 and 1936. The project employed thousands of workers, cost more than 100 lives and gave rise to Boulder City.
It took 14 years and a team of 400 sculptors, led by Gutzon Borglum, to complete this massive "Shrine of Democracy," dedicated in 1941.
This building, completed in the 1750s, is where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were deliberated and adopted.
More than 270 miles long, 18 miles wide, and a mile deep, this vast canyon is known throughout the world for its size and beauty.
Covering 22 acres, Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings that was built during the 1930s.
The Witch Dungeon Museum tells the tale of the 1692 witch trials of Salem, during which 19 people were hanged and one pressed to death.
Cape May's World War II Lookout Tower, also known as Fire Control Tower No. 23, was built in 1942. It was one of 15 towers that served as part of a harbor defense system known as Fort Miles.
Modeled after the town hall in Hoorn, the Netherlands, the museum commemorates the founding of Delaware's first European settlement by the Dutch in 1631.
This monument, titled the "Spirit of Freedom," honors the more than 200,000 African-American soldiers who fought during the Civil War.
The Agricultural Memories Museum is housed in a 48-foot by 128-foot building where you can see antique farming equipment, tractors, carriages and toys related to agricultural machinery.
The Afton Historical Society Museum features items relating to local and Mormon history, including artifacts from the life of Joseph Smith. Other items are stored in a barn on the museum grounds.
Built in 1806 when Beacon Hill was the heart of Boston's African American community, this is the oldest black church building in the United States.
The African Cemetery contains 160 headstones, including 35 African American war veterans from the Civil War through World War II.
This site contains the known remains of more than 400 enslaved and free Africans buried here between 1690 and 1794.
Established in 1970, the African American Museum of Nassau County specializes in the history and culture of African Americans on Long Island.
This Planetarium was founded in 1930 by Max Adler, who was so impressed by a European machine replicating the night sky that he decided to build one.
In 1735 John Adams was born in the colonial saltbox house on this site, and lived here until his marriage to Abigail (Smith) Adams in 1764.
Named for the two-centuries-old oak formerly standing on its property, this is an 1853 Victorian Italianate mansion.
This memorial structure contains the bodies of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd and three of their sons.
The Republican organization known as the Union League Club sponsored this bronze of Lincoln by sculptor Henry Kirke Brown (1814 - 1886).
Lincoln was born at the home on Feb 12, 1809. A granite-and-marble Beaux Art memorial stands at the spot, containing a "symbolic" birth cabin. The memorial was dedicated in 1911 by President Taft.
In 1864, Mormon pioneer Anson Call founded Callville on the Colorado River. The town was intended as a supply depot for Mormon settlements but it was never commercially successful.
The 21 Club is a world famous New York restaurant that started out as a Prohibition-era speakeasy.
The 1941 museum restores, preserves and displays aircraft from WWII and the Korean War. Planes on display include a Boeing B-17 that was featured in the film "Memphis Belle" and a Douglas A-20 Havoc.
Although NYC never was attacked during the Civil War, that doesn't mean it wasn't prepared. Four of these 13-inch seacoast mortars were stationed near Fort Hamilton, along with guns in Staten Island.
This was Seattle‚'s first professional fire station bell, placed in the new granite and brick Fire House No. 1 after the Great Fire of 1889 devastated the city.
This limestone mansion served as the home of industrialist Chester Wickwire and his descendants until 1973. The museum features rooms filled with Victorian-era furnishings, decorations and artifacts.
The Huguenot Schoolhouse is a one-room brick schoolhouse that was built in 1863 from the clay found along the banks of the nearby Neversink river.
Followers of the psychedelic cult leader Charles Manson murdered actress Sharon Tate and four other people at a home on this site in August 1969.
The Frisbie House is the two-story home of the Salisbury Historical Society. The house features local history exhibits on iron mining and colonial cheese making.
This road was used as the route for transporting bricks after the Great Fire of London in 1666, hence the name. It now boasts the greatest concentration of curry houses in Britain.
The bricks of the buildings on Downing Street were originally yellow brick which over two centuries became blackened from pollution. After restoration in the 1960s they were painted black.
The first nude statue in London was erected in the South-East corner of Hyde Park in 1822. After the pleas from 'country women' a fig leaf was later added to save their blushes.
Lombard Street is the banking centre of the city, it is named after the goldsmiths of Lombardy who settled here after being granted the land by King Edward I in the 12th century.
Until 1993 the location of Telecom Tower was an official secret, having or taking any photos of the tower was a breach of the Official Secrets Act, it was even omitted from all maps.
Bishopsgate often displayed the heads of recently executed criminals on spikes for passers by to to see. The heads were used as a warning to anyone thinking about breaking the law.
Unsold pigs were given to St. Anthony's hospital from this market in the 12th Century. When seen wondering the streets you were obliged to feed them. They grew to great sizes and were worth a fortune
At 1.5 acres Kensington Roof gardens is the largest roof garden in the whole of Europe. The gardens have been owned by Richard Branson's Virgin group since 1981.
Named after hotelier Cesar Ritz, who also managed The Savoy Hotel, the Ritz was the first hotel in London to have en-suite rooms, it was also the first steel framed building in England.
The world's best selling cigarette brand Marlboro is named after this street. The brand initially marketed women with the slogan 'Mild as May'.
Originally named Old Jerusalem, this pub was renamed after Richard, the local dandy and warehouse owner, who became famous for refusing to tidy up after his fiancee died on the eve of their wedding.
The nunnery of St. Helen's was founded in the early 13th century and is the largest surviving church in the city, it survived the Great Fire of London, the Dissolution and The Blitz.
In 1837 The Royal Opera house was the first ever theatre to use limelight. Limelight comes from the mixing of oxygen and hydrogen and then adding real burning lime to achieve a bright light.
Every year a Norway Spruce is erected here and decorated as part of the Christmas festivities. The tree is a gift of thanks from the Norwegians for Britain's support during the Second World War
Not only was it the first skyscraper in Britain to reach the 600ft, in 2005 it became the first office building in Britain to accommodate a restaurant which can boast a prestigious Michelin star.
On top of Trinity Square stands the statue of Old Father Thames who is seen to point the way to Docklands from his perch above the Port of London Authority.
In 200AD the London Wall was one of the largest construction projects carried out in Roman Britain. It would have required 1,300 barge journeys to transport the 85,000 tons of stone from Kent.
Dedicated in 1894, this statue depicts the explorer whose trans-Atlantic trips, starting in 1492, helped lead to European colonization of the Americas.
This granite statue of Hamilton, a Founding Father and co-author of the Federalist Papers, was donated by his grandson in 1880.
The current building was designed by Robert Mills and constructed over a 33-year period beginning in 1836. It is the oldest departmental building in Washington.
Created in 1959 by Jose de Creeft (1884-1982), this bronze sculpture features characters from the 1865 Lewis Carroll story‚ "Alice in Wonderland."
This memorial to Grant, the American Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, was dedicated in 1922, the 100th anniversary of his birth.
The pool, measuring some 2,000 feet long, was built soon after the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial; both were designed by architect Henry Bacon.
This tribute features outdoor galleries, statues and inscriptions meant to represent the 32nd U.S. president’s time in office, from 1933 to 1945.
Opened in 2004, this museum is devoted to the history and culture of Native people in the Western Hemisphere.
Designed by Emma Stebbins and dedicated in 1873, this fountain was the only sculpture commissioned as part of Central Park’s original design. Its official name is “Angel of the Waters.”
Built in Boston and launched in 1797, this is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat. In the early 1800s, the 44-gun Constitution fought Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa.
This memorial consists of 56 stones, each with the signature, occupation and hometown of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
A circle of stones marks the site where on the evening of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired on a mob of American colonists, killing five of them.
This historic structure, erected in the early 1700s, housed an influential publishing business and bookstore in the 1800s.
This is New York City's oldest park, a designation it received in 1733. According to legend, over a century earlier, in 1626, Native Americans sold the island of Manhattan to the Dutch at this site.
These tar pits hold the fossils of Ice Age animals that became trapped in the asphalt deposits here. The fossils were first described by Wellesley College professor William Denton in 1875.
