Once completed, landmarks dominate a landscape, but as these photos show, it can be even more interesting to see present-day icons, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Hoover Dam, and the Sydney Opera House, when they were still taking shape.
Our two-day guide to Southern California's second city holds plenty of sparkling secrets, from tide pools to tacos to a brutalist library named after Dr. Seuss.
Indigenous peoples and their territories have historically been left off maps by colonizers to delegitimize their existence and land claims. Native Land, an interactive mapping website, does the opposite by swapping out country and state borders for historic and present-day Indigenous territories and languages.
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were detained there during World War II.
In the middle of the Qatari desert sits "Film City," a palm tree-laden artificial village built for a film or television series. Visitors may walk through the empty main square, climb the turrets, and really sink into the surreal atmosphere.
John A. Roebling, the civil engineer who built the Brooklyn Bridge, created another, much smaller bridge that now sits in Trenton's Stacy Park. Locals gave the structure its name because the wooden planks shake back and forth as you traverse the roughly 20-foot span.
The Gyeondyo-bar, which translates loosely to "hang-in-there-bar," is a grapefruit-flavored ice cream treat that promises to help with hangovers.
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