Giessen, Germany
Gießkannenmuseum (Watering Can Museum)
An homage to the humble watering can.
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Giessen, Germany
An homage to the humble watering can.
Galway, Ireland
A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.
Alexandria, Virginia
This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.
New York, New York
A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Stowe, Vermont
This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.
Kissimmee, Florida
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.
St. Louis, Missouri
A big museum full of little worlds.
Cochrane, Wisconsin
Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.
Cartagena, Spain
An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.
Reno, Nevada
The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.
Zavikon Island, Ontario
The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.
Bridgewater, New Jersey
American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.
Thetford, Vermont
This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.
Reading, Pennsylvania
A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.
Lake George, New York
A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Meadville, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin
A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.