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The Hungry Horse dam.

Hungry Horse, Montana

Hungry Horse Dam

The tallest dam in Montana and top 10 in the country.

Glover Garden

Nagasaki, Japan

Glover Garden

The oldest western-style houses in Japan are centered around the industrialist Thomas Glover.

Middle Fork River Forest Preserve was Illinois’ first International Dark Sky Park.

Penfield, Illinois

Middle Fork River Forest Preserve

An Illinois prairie preserve where the real show begins after sunset.

Midewin  was the first national tallgrass prairie in the United States.

Wilmington, Illinois

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.

CCC Scenic Overlook

West Fork, Arkansas

Devil’s Den State Park

A sandstone canyon wilderness with a history of outlaws, mysterious disappearances, and a UFO encounter.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Munising, Michigan

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

New mural on street

Bellefontaine, Ohio

Shortest Street in America

Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.

A view down the courtyard

Santa Fe, New Mexico

National Park Service Southwest Regional Office

The largest known adobe office building, emulating in style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.

Hiwassee Dam

Owl Creek, North Carolina

Hiwassee Dam

This dam is part of the nation’s largest public power producer and a historic steward of Hiwassee River.

Alexander Hamilton's birthplace

Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Alexander Hamilton Birthplace

Alexander Hamilton, a founding father for the United States, was an immigrant and born on Nevis.

The Guiana Space Centre

Kourou, French Guiana

The Guiana Space Centre

Europe’s only spaceport is in South America.

Dispensary facade

Hong Kong

Sham Shui Po Public Dispensary

Is this Art Deco-style building the world’s prettiest methadone clinic?

Building 11

Staten Island, New York

National Lighthouse Museum

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Transportation Camp

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana

The Transportation Camp

Over 70,000 prisoners were “transported” to a brutal life of forced labor in this French penal colony.

Center of Mount Imbiah Battery

Singapore

Forts of Sentosa

Forgotten forts that were pivotal in Singapore’s military history.

Gas Stripping Tower, Brisbane

West End, Australia

Gas Stripping Tower

A heritage-listed, cast-iron tower that was used for stripping out components of raw coal gas.

Close up of the Alexander Graham Bell Statue.

Brantford, Ontario

Alexander Graham Bell Statue

An imposing, larger-than-life statue of Alexander Graham Bell sits at the entrance of the Bell Telephone Company office.

Rig Museum "Mr. Charlie" side profile

Morgan City, Louisiana

Rig Museum

The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.

The beginning of the tunnel

Madrid, Spain

The Tunnel of Bonaparte

A tunnel commissioned by ‘the Intruder King’ to escape from the palace if there were problems.

Springthorpe Memorial

Kew, Australia

Springthorpe Memorial

A hauntingly beautiful grave commemorates love evermore.

Pope Leo XIV's Childhood Home

Dolton, Illinois

Pope Leo XIV's Childhood Home

Before the Vatican, there was Dolton: This is the childhood home of the first American pope.

'Gesellschaftsspiegel' ('Society Mirror')

Hamburg, Germany

'Gesellschaftsspiegel' ('Society Mirror')

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

The Bell family home at the Bell Homestead.

Brantford, Ontario

Bell Homestead

The telephone was first conceived here in 1874 by Alexander Graham Bell.

Hull Lifesaving Museum

Hull, Massachusetts

Hull Lifesaving Museum

The original base for shipwreck rescues in Boston Harbor in the original Point Allerton Lifesaving Station opened in 1889.

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