Places Edited by jongrantham

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

The site of the first international football match.

A historic, reportedly haunted pub that provided inspiration for several famous adventure novels.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Whether his story is true or not, Stiffy Green is the most beloved bulldog in all of Indiana.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

Skewer up Kangaroo.