Best Historic Site
The Pavilion at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is an outdoor amphitheater located in Bethel, New York, on the site of the 1969 Woodstock music festival. It opened in 2006 with a performance by the New York Philharmonic and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The venue accommodates approximately 15,000 u...
The Bollinger Mill State Historic Site is a preserved historical complex located in Burfordville, Missouri. Its central feature is a four-story brick and stone grist mill constructed in 1867 to process grain for the local community. The site is also home to the adjacent Burfordville Covered Bridge,...
Tivoli Gardens is a historic amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Established in 1843, it remains one of Europe’s oldest continuously operating parks. The Victorian-era gardens offer beautiful spaces alongside thrilling rides and regular live music performances. It's particularly popular with fami...
Chapman's Mill (also known as the Chapman-Beverly Mill) is a five-story stone gristmill built in 1742 by Nathaniel Chapman and his son at Thoroughfare Gap in the Bull Run Mountains of Virginia. During the American Civil War, the strategically located mill served as a grain supply point and changed h...
Kapustin Yar is a historical rocket launch and development site established in 1946 in southwestern Russia, primarily located in Astrakhan Oblast. It served as the Soviet Union's first major testing ground for ballistic missiles, including early derivatives of the German V-2 rocket, and features num...
The Gyeongju Historic Areas encompass the ruins and monuments of Gyeongju, which served as the capital of the ancient Silla Kingdom in South Korea from 57 BCE to 935 CE. The city is often referred to as a museum without walls due to its high concentration of historical structures and artifacts. The...
The Old Stone Mill National Historic Site is a historic water-powered gristmill located in Delta, Ontario, Canada. Constructed in 1810, the building is a notable early example of industrial architecture utilizing the automated milling system developed by Oliver Evans. It functioned as a commercial m...
Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site is a historic gristmill complex located near Shedd, Oregon. Originally constructed in 1858 to serve local agriculture, it stands as the oldest water-powered mill in the state. Following extensive restoration, it was officially preserved as an Oregon state heritag...
The Baekje Historic Areas are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Korea comprising eight archaeological locations in Gongju, Buyeo, and Iksan. The sites preserve fortresses, royal tombs, palace remains, temple sites, and defensive structures associated with the later period of the Baekje kingdom,...
Writing Rock State Historic Site is a protected cultural site in northwestern North Dakota near the Canadian border. It preserves two granite boulders bearing carved figures, including thunderbird-like forms associated with Indigenous peoples of the northern Plains. The boulders are glacial erratics...
Borgaråsen is a Swedish esker composed of sorted glacial sand and gravel, notable as a surviving record of subglacial meltwater drainage.
