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Places That Changed the World

Nalanda: The university that changed the world (Credit: Tahir Ansari/Alamy)
Places That Changed the World

The university that changed the world

By Sugato Mukherjee

With the invention of the vaccine, along came the world's first anti-vaxxers (Credit: Science History Images/Alamy)
Adventure & Experience

The world's first anti-vaxxers

By Simon Heptinstall
Today, the hotel offers numerous amenities, including a 464-acre ski area (Credit: Pat & Chuck Blackley/Alamy)
Adventure & Experience

The remote hideout of the World Bank

By Linda Laban
Basel’s Old Town is one of the best-preserved and most beautiful in Europe (Credit: Leonid Andronov/Getty Images)
Places That Changed the World

An ancient city that discovered LSD

By Norman Miller
The Persian mail system inspired the USPS, and likely many other delivery systems too (Credit: Whitemay/Getty Images)
Culture & Identity

Iran's ingenious delivery solution

By Joobin Bekhrad
The tiny Czech town of Jáchymov was just named one of Unesco's newest World Heritage sites (Credit: Eliot Stein)
Places That Changed the World

The surprising birthplace of the dollar

By Eliot Stein
Humanist and scholar Aldus Manutius revolutionised the printing industry by printing in 'aldino', or italic, type (Credit: PRISMA ARCHIVO/Alamy)
Places That Changed the World

Why the italic font was created

By Margarita Gokun Silver
Cordouan’s bulls-eye panels create beams of concentrated light in different colours to indicate directions to mariners (Credit: Hemis/Alamy)
Places That Changed the World

A monument to maritime engineering

By Adrienne Bernhard
According to Service, Knockinaam Lodge’s location near other significant military operations, such as Mulberry Harbour, made it the ideal meeting place (Credit: Mike MacEacheran)
Places That Changed the World

The spot 'where D-Day was decided'

By Mike MacEacheran
The Heart of Cape Town Museum is housed in the Groote Shuur operating theatres where the transplant took place (Credit: Richard Holmes)
Adventure & Experience

A remarkable story of life and death

By Richard Holmes
The Pacific island nation of Fiji ushered aviation into the 21st Century (Credit: Kim Petersen/Alamy)
Places That Changed the World

How Fiji changed the way we travel

By Sarah Stodola
Fort Lee itself, with its charming streets, could serve as ‘Anytown, USA’ (Credit: Elizabeth Pustinger)
Places That Changed the World

Where the US film industry really began

By Laura Kiniry
In 1943 alone, 16 million tins of corned beef were shipped out from Fray Bentos, the vast majority used to power the Allied war effort (Credit: David Forster/Alamy)
Places That Changed the World

How a Uruguayan town changed how we eat

By Shafik Meghji
Schengen was chosen as the location for the signing of the treaty because it is the only place where both France and Germany join with a Benelux member (Credit: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy)
Places That Changed the World

A treaty that changed how we travel

By Kirsten Henton
Today, the Waltham Watch Company factory is a residential and retail space (Credit: Linda Laban)
Places That Changed the World

The city that changed how we tell time

By Linda Laban
The Chicxulub Crater has been nominated for recognition as a Unesco World Heritage site (Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy)
Discovery

The deadliest place in Earth's history?

By Matthew Ponsford