In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Visit the ruins of a magnificent mansion confiscated by Fidel Castro.

Besides being home to cave paintings and pre-Columbian Cuban archaeological remains, you get to take a boat through this stalactite and stalagmite covered cave.

This Cuban town sets the sky on fire around Christmas each year.

Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A colossal statue with a controversial past, forgotten for more than 30 years.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.