Stonington, Connecticut
Mystic Seaport Museum
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
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Stonington, Connecticut
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Laboe, Germany
This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.
South Bend, Indiana
This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.
Morro Bay, California
A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Blois, France
Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
New Haven, Connecticut
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Santa Monica, California
A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
San Bernardino County, California
This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.
Detroit, Michigan
Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.