Politics

The building that once housed the dictator's secret police is now a museum that documents the history of an oppressive regime and those who fought against it.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

From the late 19th century until the 1960s, these stone-lined "stumps" were a popular place for people to air their views on local and international issues.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

The feminist fashion collective centering Palestinian craftsmanship and radical transparency.

The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.

Named for a Greek oracle that interpreted the words of Zeus, this beautifully-restored manor home was once home to the architect of the Marshall Plan.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

A small self-proclaimed micro-state located on a piece of disputed territory between Croatia and Serbia, near Liberland.

The summer estate of John Weeks offers dazzling views and a moose captured by Theodore Roosevelt.

The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.

Though a proud Texan, the 41st President of the United States started life in the suburbs of Boston.

This monument marking the center of Mexico might be more political than geographical.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

A mere dot on the map in the great north woods is the first place in America to vote in Presidential elections.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.