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The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.