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Rundetårn

Copenhagen, Denmark

Rundetårn

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

The world's tallest elevator test tower.

Rottweil, Germany

ThyssenKrupp Test Tower

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

Visitors stand on a 130-foot-high spiral tower.

Binz, Germany

Treetop Tower of Rügen

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Vignola's helix-shaped staircase.

Caprarola, Italy

Villa Farnese

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

Brookline, Massachusetts

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

Inside a grand Victorian-era carriage house is the oldest automobile collection in the United States.

The Abandoned Train of Bartlett, New Hampshire

Bartlett, New Hampshire

The Abandoned Train of Bartlett, New Hampshire

An old locomotive hides deep in the forest.

Longhorn Cavern

Burnet, Texas

Longhorn Cavern

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

Green Bank Telescope

Green Bank, West Virginia

Green Bank Telescope

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

The massive telescope array is visible from all over the small town

Green Bank, West Virginia

Green Bank: A Town for 'Wi-Fi Refugees'

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

View from Mount Mansfield

Stowe, Vermont

Mount Mansfield

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Observation tower at the top of Kuwohi

Bryson City, North Carolina

Kuwohi

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Planes@Plaza Store

Schiphol, Netherlands

Planes@Plaza

This old KLM airplane cut into three parts was transformed into an eclectic airport gift shop.

Crane Hotel

Harlingen, Netherlands

Crane Hotel

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

Sagano Bamboo Forest

Kyoto, Japan

Sagano Bamboo Forest

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Santuario di San Patrizio

Colzate, Italy

Santuario di San Patrizio

Distressing images of the Last Judgement adorn the walls of this medieval sanctuary named for St. Patrick.

Hull Lifesaving Museum

Hull, Massachusetts

Hull Lifesaving Museum

The original base for shipwreck rescues in Boston Harbor in the original Point Allerton Lifesaving Station opened in 1889.

Fallingwater over the falls

Mill Run, Pennsylvania

Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

 Stereoscopes became a popular form of in-home entertainment in the mid 19th-century. |

Meadville, Pennsylvania

Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum

A small town in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, is home to a former world leader in stereoscopic photography.  

 Recline in style inside the Duncan House, available to rent by the night. |

Acme, Pennsylvania

Polymath Park

Sleep in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home or dine in the treetops in this architecture park.

The lighthouse affords dreamy sunset views.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie Land Lighthouse

Climb the first lighthouse commissioned on a Great Lake to a lookout with peaceful, panoramic views.

Ride along the Lehigh Canal in a mule-pulled boat.

Easton, Pennsylvania

National Canal Museum

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

McCulloch J-2 Gyroplane.

West Chester, Pennsylvania

American Helicopter Museum and Education Center

A converted hangar displays dozens of helicopters, from a famous 1943 rescue chopper to several autogyros.

Fontana Boathouse

Buffalo, New York

Fontana Boathouse

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

A view over the fort and the city of Rome.

Rome, New York

Fort Stanwix National Monument

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

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