Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Westinghouse Atom Smasher
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Raleigh, North Carolina
A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.
Birmingham, Alabama
A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.
Pickering, Ontario
The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.
Dawson City, Yukon
A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.
Dawson City, Yukon
A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.
New York, New York
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
Wall, South Dakota
One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.
Concord, New Hampshire
The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.
Concord, New Hampshire
This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.
McMinnville, Oregon
A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.
Cheongsong, South Korea
Trees emerge from the surface of this small man-made reservoir.
Concord, New Hampshire
Carved, egg-shaped stone with no explanation.
Henniker, New Hampshire
Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.
Contoocook, New Hampshire
The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.
Moab, Utah
It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
Freeport, Maine
When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.
Mount Baldy, California
Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Euclid, Ohio
This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.
Seattle, Washington
Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.
Seattle, Washington
A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.
Seattle, Washington
42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.