Site of the infamous axe murders. As seen on Ghost Adventures. Read more.
TRAVEL FACT: See the original diary of Anne Frank in the house where she and her family hid from the Nazis.
This memorial structure contains the bodies of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd and three of their sons.
Nice place to visit. Very inexpensive thanks to Lincoln's son Robert ordering that admision to the home was never to be charged.
Yep, it's the real thing. Many of the original graves were moved when the road was put in, but the historic graves from the period in the 1880s remain here.
Ghost Adventures confronts the spirits of the Old West in Tombstone, AZ. The Bird Cage Theater embodied the heyday of the silver boom. Gunslingers, gamblers and prostitutes died in the theater. Read more.
On the second floor of the Theater, you can see the boxseat where Abe Lincoln was sitting when he was killed. On the lower level the museum displays exhibits about Lincoln’s life and his tragic death.
A working prison for 101 years (1872–1973), this site allows visitors a unique opportunity to learn history through the lens of regional crime.
This Egyptian revival theater was developed by Sid Grauman and Charles E. Toberman in 1922 to accommodate the growing population of Los Angeles.
The trade center's twin 110-story towers, the planet's tallest buildings when they officially opened in 1973, were destroyed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the U.S.
The French Market was originally a Choctaw trading post. Dating back to 1791, it is the oldest documented farmers’ market in America. -Travel Editor
Did you know? This is known as the site of failed peace talks in 1776 between Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge of the Continental Army and the British to avert the Revolutionary War.
These stairs were made famous in the 1973 horror movie, "The Exorcist." Today you might find GU students and athletes using them for exercising, instead of exorcising.
If you are going to see Harry Baal's Drive, you have an obligation to walk up the mound to see the little wrought iron fenced-in area of Johnny Appleseed. Plenty of old, old apple trees surround the
San Quentin village sits outside the gates and has a cute beach! Also, history of a prison here goes back to the gold rush - when this was a 4 man prison cell!
I really have no words for this place. Took me back to that very day. The pools. As I see them, a million tears falling in, and falling into a bottomless pit...So powerful.
The Battle of Bentonville, occurring between March 19-21 in 1865, was the largest battle ever fought in North Carolina.
The father of modern mystery and the macabre spent some of his final years in the Bronx, and wrote several well-known works in this cottage, including the poems "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells”.
Before he died, he shot an arrow from the Priory window, and where the arrow landed was to be the site of his grave. The grave with an inscription is within sight of the ruins of the Kirklees Priory.
One of the US Parks Service's smallest monuments, but large on history. Watch the film, enjoy the history, & view the monument. The rangers are very friendly too. Easy to get to from Phoenix area.
Thunderbird Lodge has several different tours. We did the 3hr tour, beautiful but a rough ride at times
This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a 1,000 year-old story of ingenuity and survival in an unforgiving desert landscape.
Robert Stroud, "The Birdman of Alcatraz" spent 17 years in cell #42. Segregated from the prisoners, he turned to birds for company. He was the inspiration for the 1962 movie starring Burt Lancaster.
The site of a notorious Confederate stockade, 13,000 Union soldiers died while imprisoned here. Clara Barton later identified many of the bodies buried in the camp’s mass graves. (From Aerial America) Read more.
Guided tours of the historic sites in this utopian village offered every day at 10 am and 2 pm.
Built in 1830, this was once home to the author famous for penning many chilling tales. This house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972.
The graveyard was established in 1786 and is probably most famous as the burial site of Edgar Allan Poe. The complex was declared a national historic district in 1974.
The first stop by John Wilkes Booth after he shot President Lincoln, this tavern turned museum offers a tour of the assassin’s escape route. Get tickets early, it tends to sell out quickly.
Beautiful mountains surround deep valleys and thick forests are interspersed with arid rocky areas. Bandelier was established to preserve the remains of a Puebloan community over eight centuries old. Read more.
Watch "Roanoke" at the visitors center to learn the background of the Roanoke voyages and Sir Walter Raleigh's efforts to colonize the area.
Camp Chase was used during the Civil War as a Union training ground and a Confederate prison camp. Read more.
This house and accompanying museum is a Registered Historic Landmark that was turned into a hospital for Confederate soldiers following the Battle of Franklin during the Civil War. Read more.
