The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

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

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.