Austin, Texas
Animatronic Lyndon Baines Johnson
Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.
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Austin, Texas
Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.
Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Austin, Texas
A tribute to a great Texas blues musician.
Austin, Texas
This Austin music venue is an homage to a legendary figure in the local blues scene.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.
South Hero, Vermont
This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.
Paris, France
This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.
Cologne, Germany
The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.
Brussels, Belgium
Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Cemetery honors Americans who died during WWII and is the resting place of Gen. George S. Patton.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.
Saratoga Springs, New York
A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.
Cohoes, New York
The largest roller-skating rink in the world.
Troy, New York
The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.
Troy, New York
This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Queens, New York
The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.
Westford, Vermont
Three wooden middle fingers raised in protest.
Stowe, Vermont
A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.