Step into a historical moment. Make a different choice. See what happens.
Royal Opera House, Stockholm · 1792
What if you had lowered the pistol?
Bay of Pigs, Cuba · 1961
What if the invasion had gone differently?
Paris, France · 1939
What if the Surrealists had convinced you to stay?
Seattle, Washington · 1994
What if you had answered the phone?
Dartford, Kent, England · 1961
What if the Rolling Stones never happened?
Waterloo, Belgium · 1815
What if Napoleon's final gamble had succeeded?
Los Alamos, New Mexico · 1945
What if you had refused to build it?
Lunar orbit / Sea of Tranquility · 1969
What if the landing had to be aborted?
Over the Pacific Ocean · 1937
What if you found Howland Island?
Chicago World's Fair · 1893
What if Edison had won?
Hamburg, Germany · 1960
What if you had given up and gone home?
Washington D.C. · 1962
What if the naval blockade had failed?
United Nations, New York · 2003
What if you had refused to make the case you knew was flawed?
East Berlin, Germany · 1989
What if you had read the memo more carefully before the press conference?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1776
What if the Continental Congress had voted no?
Theatre of Pompey, Rome · 44 BC
What if you had heeded the warning and stayed home?
Paris, France · 1789
What if the governor had opened the gates before the mob arrived?
New Delhi, India · 1947
What if you had slowed down and refused the rushed timeline?
Victor Verster Prison, South Africa · 1990
What if you had emerged from prison consumed by bitterness instead of reconciliation?
Alexandria, Egypt · 48 BC
What if the carpet gambit had failed and Caesar had handed you to your brother?
Southern England / Normandy, France · 1944
What if the weather window had closed and you had called it off?
Thermopylae, Greece · 480 BC
What if a shepherd had not shown the Persians the mountain path?
Samarkand, Khwarezm Empire · 1219
What if the Shah had accepted the peace envoy instead of executing him?
English Channel · 1588
What if the storms had held off long enough for the invasion to land?
Stalingrad, Soviet Union · 1942
What if you had broken out when Manstein offered you the chance?
Washington D.C. · 1945
What if you had chosen a demonstration over a city?
Berkeley, California · 1942
What if you had said no when they asked you to lead the bomb project?
Down House, Kent, England · 1858
What if Wallace's letter had forced you to finally publish — or stay silent forever?
Paris, France · 1898
What if the Academy had refused to recognize your discovery because of your sex?
Rome, Papal States · 1633
What if you had refused to recant — and faced the flames for it?
St. Mary's Hospital, London · 1928
What if you had thrown out the contaminated petri dish before noticing what it was doing?
Bletchley Park, England · 1941
What if the Bombe had failed and the U-boat codes had stayed unbroken?
King's College London · 1952
What if you had published your X-ray data before Watson and Crick saw it?
Long Island, New York · 1939
What if Einstein had refused to sign the letter warning Roosevelt about the bomb?
Monterey, California · 1967
What if you had refused to follow The Who — and gone on first instead?
Bethel, New York · 1969
What if the farmer had turned the half-million people away when they overflowed his land?
Memphis, Tennessee · 1953
What if Sam Phillips had not been there the day you paid to make your mother a record?
Westlake Recording Studios, Los Angeles · 1982
What if the Jehovah's Witnesses had made you pull the album's dark imagery — before Quincy Jones could stop them?
Kingston, Jamaica · 1978
What if the two rival gang leaders had refused to shake hands on stage?
London, England · 1972
What if the alien persona had been too strange and the record label had shelved the album?
Wembley Stadium, London · 1985
What if Queen had been given thirty minutes instead of twenty — and never left the stage?
Thames Television Studios, London · 1976
What if you had kept your mouth shut and punk had stayed underground?
Caribbean Sea · 1492
What if the crew had mutinied three days before land appeared?
Strait of Magellan, South America · 1521
What if you had turned back at the strait and never entered the Pacific?
Mount Everest, Nepal · 1953
What if the final ridge had been impassable and you had turned back forty feet from the top?
North Atlantic / Newfoundland · 1000
What if you had established a permanent settlement and Europe had known the Americas five centuries earlier?
Weddell Sea, Antarctica · 1915
What if the ice had crushed the ship before you could salvage the lifeboats?
Berlin Olympic Stadium, Germany · 1936
What if Hitler's Germany had banned you from competing on a racial technicality?
Miami Beach Convention Hall, Florida · 1964
What if your corner had thrown in the towel before the sixth round — and you never became Muhammad Ali?
Lake Placid, New York · 1980
What if you had kept your veterans instead of building a team of college kids nobody believed in?
Estadio Azteca, Mexico City · 1986
What if the referee had seen it — and sent you off for handball?
National Stadium, Beijing · 2008
What if you had run through the line instead of celebrating early — and broken 9.5 seconds?
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow · 1993
What if you had left before the support act played?
Montgomery, Alabama · 1955
What if you had given up your seat?
Trump Tower, New York · 2016
What if you had dropped out of the race?
Hofstra University, New York · 2016
What if you had abandoned the playbook?
Las Vegas, Nevada · 1996
What if you had taken a different car?
Hôtel de ville de Montréal · 1967
Et si vous n'aviez jamais prononcé ces mots ?
Schlosskirche, Wittenberg · 1517
Was wäre geschehen, wenn Sie die Thesen nicht angeschlagen hätten?
Tenochtitlán, Imperio Azteca · 1519
¿Y si el encuentro hubiera sido diferente?
