Falkirk, Scotland
Falkirk Wheel
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
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Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
Lima, Peru
The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.
Lima, Peru
The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Lima, Peru
Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.
Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium
This bike path traverses the treetops.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Monterrey, Mexico
One of Monterrey's oldest buildings is perched atop a hill boasting impressive views of the city.
Monterrey, Mexico
A honeycomb-like structure of interlocking shelves creates a beehive of books.
Monterrey, Mexico
A Beaux-Arts architectural surprise and a charming nostalgic tour through northern Mexico’s railway revolution.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.
East Windsor, Connecticut
A preserved trolley track that was transformed into a museum of transportation.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.
Milford, Connecticut
The last vessel built by a submarine pioneer stands as a monument to his legacy.
New Haven, Connecticut
It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.
Stratford, Connecticut
A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.
New Haven, Connecticut
One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.
Hamden, Connecticut
Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.
Hartford, Connecticut
The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.
Hartford, Connecticut
An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.