New Orleans, Louisiana
Fort Pike
Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Elma, Washington
From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.
Vantage, Washington
An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.
Touchet, Washington
Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.
La Push, Washington
Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.
Olympia, Washington
Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.
Port Angeles, Washington
Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.
Stevenson, Washington
An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii
The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Kalaupapa, Hawaii
Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.
Itaewon-ro, South Korea
Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A high point in Vancouver kitsch.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Tarragona, Spain
Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.
Ardales, Spain
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
Guise, France
This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.