The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.