Visiting Giza: The Last Standing Wonder
The Great Pyramid is the only Ancient Wonder still standing. Visit Giza, Egypt to see why, and what recent digs reveal about who really built it.
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Visiting Ford’s Theatre: The President’s Box
Ford's Theatre still stages plays in the room where Lincoln was shot. A visit inside the working stage, the presidential box, and the house where he died.
Visiting Luxor: The City of Life and Death
Luxor split ancient Egypt into two cities, one for the living and one for the dead. Explore Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, and Hatshepsut's temple.
Visiting the Acropolis: The Parthenon’s Gunpowder Disaster
In 1687, a mortar shell ignited Ottoman gunpowder inside the Parthenon. Visiting the Acropolis in Athens, Greece means reading the ruin that explosion left behind.
Visiting Mont Saint-Michel: France’s Tidal Island Abbey
Discover why Mont Saint-Michel was built to be dangerous, nearly lost its tides to a road, and was engineered back into a true island by 2015.
Visiting Alcatraz: The Escape Nobody Solved
Alcatraz, United States: the federal prison built on the bet that San Francisco Bay was escape-proof, and the 1962 escape that nobody has ever fully solved.
Visiting Uluru: The Climb Australia Ended
Uluru's traditional owners asked visitors not to climb for over three decades. In 2019 that request finally became a rule. The story behind the closure.
Visiting the Tower of London: A Prison for the Powerful
Visiting the Tower of London: why its most famous prisoners weren't criminals, but people who had once stood closest to the throne.
Visiting Göbekli Tepe: The World’s Oldest Temple
Göbekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years and was built by people with no farms, pottery or metal tools.
Visiting Sigiriya: King Kashyapa’s Lion Rock
Sigiriya: how a Sri Lankan king's fifth century fortress, built out of guilt and fear, became one of Asia's most sophisticated ancient sites.