Another important stop is the Benz family villa and museum in Ladenburg, where Carl founded Benz and Sons in 1906 with the two boys Bertha had taken with her that August day in 1888. By the time ...

When Bertha Benz drove off in husband Carl's motorized invention 125 years ago, she had no idea she would be driving into history. Hers was the world's first long-distance drive and the first ...