Estes Park has long been a popular place for tourists coming to visit Rocky Mountain National Park. Perched on a hill in the heart of downtown is an important site in the process that made this little mountain village the tourism juggernaut that it is today. In 1903, Denver Post editor Albert Birch began spending his summers in Estes Park. He grew...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald were both members of The Four, a quartet from Glasgow that included Margaret's sister Frances and her husband James Herbert MacNair. The Four met at the Glasgow School of Art when they studied there at the end of the 19th century. The men were architecture students who incorporated Art Nouveau...

On the outskirts of the city of Hargeisa lies a decaying airplane, manufactured in Moscow in 1962. No longer in flying condition, it sits propped up on concrete pillars behind a wall topped with barbed wire. While the breakaway republic of Somaliland seems like a strange final resting place for a mid-century Soviet aircraft, even less likely is the...

This cemetery contains the remains of 21,000 German soldiers who died during the Allied invasion in 1944. Unlike many cemeteries dedicated to those who died in battle, there are no statues glorifying the deeds of the fallen here. Even though what the Third Reich stood for was morally indefensible, many of the young men—some of them teenagers—buried...

In 1899, 790 Japanese immigrants boarded the Sakura-maru at the Port of Yokohama and set out for Lima, Peru. Ninety years after that journey across the Pacific Ocean, a statue of a girl called Sakura-chan was installed at the Japanese cultural center in Lima, commemorating the transpacific friendship between the two nations. In 1999, on the centenary...

Are you planning to visit the city of Namur in Wallonia, Belgium, but not sure what to do? Try a scavenger hunt through the city center, trying to find all 40+ miniatures hidden in plain sight. The miniatures of Spanish artist Isaac Cordal, representing anonymous civil servants, aim to let passersby contemplate consumerism, social inequality, the...