Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Built in 1945, this historic train station has a new lease on life with its baggage area serving as an event space.

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

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The world's largest wooden structure.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

A well preserved medieval fortress in Vojvodina.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

This plaza is home to a number of works, including Montpellier‘s own Arc de Triomphe.