Enshi, China
Sidu River Bridge
This highest bridge in the world spans such a great chasm that it had to be established using rockets.
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Enshi, China
This highest bridge in the world spans such a great chasm that it had to be established using rockets.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Antarctica
The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.
Sudbury, Ontario
A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.
Boden N, Sweden
A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.
Mountain View, Hawaii
A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
Hana, Hawaii
The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.
Houlton, Maine
This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.
Zagreb, Croatia
This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.
Stockholm, Sweden
The world's largest model of our planetary system.
Maputo, Mozambique
From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.
Beira, Mozambique
Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.