Wellington, New Zealand
Wellington Airport Runway
High winds can make this one scary landing.
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Wellington, New Zealand
High winds can make this one scary landing.
Tillamook, Oregon
The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.
McMinnville, Oregon
The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.
Mukilteo, Washington
A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.
Dayton, Ohio
You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.
Titusville, Florida
The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.
Santa Monica, California
"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Los Angeles, California
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
Boawae, Indonesia
A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.
Ruteng, Indonesia
The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.
Ban Long, Laos
This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.
Hanoi, Vietnam
The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.
Phonsavan, Laos
Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.
Halong City, Vietnam
Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.
Phonsavan, Laos
Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.
Cavite City, Philippines
The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.
Cavite City, Philippines
A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.
Tha Bak, Laos
Villagers have recycled bomber fuel tanks from the Vietnam War and turned them into very, very strong boats.