Places BearcatEngineer Wants to Go

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

An historic, one-lane, pedestrian suspension bridge on Kauai.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.