Is it starting to make sense? When Jason Cochran road tripped back to his southern roots, he noticed how a lot of our history still echoes from the American Civil War.

If you look back and you trace the wires through time, they all sort of plug into the

outlet which is the Civil War. Coming up, we look at what you can learn from

visiting monuments to American tragedies. If you'd prefer some serious social distancing, Chris Solomon confirms nothing's really changed in 90 years when an adventurer described the scene at Alaska's least visited National Park.

He described it as Paradise found, this lost world where orchids bloomed in the volcanically

warm soil.

And high school buddies remember the summer road trip of a lifetime when they got to see a game at every major league baseball stadium in America.

It was our excuse to get off to these different stadiums and the real meat was the journey in between.

You could never do this trip with

football. He'd have absolutely no shot. It's all just ahead on travel with Rick Steves.

For more than a hundred years, statues of Confederate generals lining a boulevard in Richmond, Virginia reminded you that it was once the Confederate capital.

Now that state officials have decided to remove them, Jason Cochran reminds us that there are many parts of American history that deserve a closer re-examination.

He tells us what he learned, visiting monuments in his home state of Georgia,

and across the country.

That's in just a bit.

As we celebrate our 15th anniversary year of Travel with Rick Steves, let's also revisit a couple of

our favorite interviews from a few years ago. We'll hear about the adventure a couple of our favorite interviews from a few years ago.

We'll hear about the adventure, a group of high school buddies will always remember

when they fixed up a van and headed to every major league baseball stadium in the U.S.

plus that one in Canada.

We'll hear how much fun it was a little later in the hour.

Let's start in one of the wildest places in America,

...