An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This Costa Rican chapel is the most metal church in the world, literally.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A serene space tucked amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong's bustling financial district.