For some, the enormous boulder in the Mojave Desert is a sacred site. On a recent afternoon, the aptly named Giant Rock is the first stop on a tour from a UFO convention whose guides tout it as the place where, in 1953, extraterrestrials visited a man and instructed him to build a time machine that is now one of …
Fort Mose: The first free Black town in the US Allen Creative/Steve Allen/Alamy A wooden walkway now juts out over the marshy flats where Fort Mose was built in 1738 Nearly 200 years before slavery was abolished in the US, Black freedom-seekers journeyed south instead of north to a place that promised freedom. Tour St Augustine's Black past In addition …
