Hong Kong
Jumbo Kingdom
A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.
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Hong Kong
A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.
Sitka, Alaska
The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.
Anchorage, Alaska
This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.
Haines, Alaska
A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.
Anchorage, Alaska
A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Biloxi, Mississippi
A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.
Gulfport, Mississippi
Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.
Iceland
A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.
Washington, D.C.
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
Henrieville, Utah
This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.
Salem, Massachusetts
The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.
Washington, D.C.
Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.
Pensacola, Florida
Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.
Kyoto, Japan
Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.
Tucson, Arizona
A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.
Hartford, Connecticut
A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.
Jasper, Alberta
This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.
Washington, D.C.
The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.
Anchorage, Alaska
During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.
Panguitch, Utah
Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.