Hungry Horse, Montana
Hungry Horse Dam
The tallest dam in Montana and top 10 in the country.
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Hungry Horse, Montana
The tallest dam in Montana and top 10 in the country.
Nagasaki, Japan
The oldest western-style houses in Japan are centered around the industrialist Thomas Glover.
Penfield, Illinois
An Illinois prairie preserve where the real show begins after sunset.
Wilmington, Illinois
On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.
West Fork, Arkansas
A sandstone canyon wilderness with a history of outlaws, mysterious disappearances, and a UFO encounter.
Munising, Michigan
This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.
Bellefontaine, Ohio
Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The largest known adobe office building, emulating in style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.
Owl Creek, North Carolina
This dam is part of the nation’s largest public power producer and a historic steward of Hiwassee River.
Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Alexander Hamilton, a founding father for the United States, was an immigrant and born on Nevis.
Kourou, French Guiana
Europe’s only spaceport is in South America.
Hong Kong
Is this Art Deco-style building the world’s prettiest methadone clinic?
Staten Island, New York
This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana
Over 70,000 prisoners were “transported” to a brutal life of forced labor in this French penal colony.
Singapore
Forgotten forts that were pivotal in Singapore’s military history.
West End, Australia
A heritage-listed, cast-iron tower that was used for stripping out components of raw coal gas.
Brantford, Ontario
An imposing, larger-than-life statue of Alexander Graham Bell sits at the entrance of the Bell Telephone Company office.
Morgan City, Louisiana
The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.
Madrid, Spain
A tunnel commissioned by ‘the Intruder King’ to escape from the palace if there were problems.
Kew, Australia
A hauntingly beautiful grave commemorates love evermore.
Dolton, Illinois
Before the Vatican, there was Dolton: This is the childhood home of the first American pope.
Hamburg, Germany
Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.
Brantford, Ontario
The telephone was first conceived here in 1874 by Alexander Graham Bell.
Hull, Massachusetts
The original base for shipwreck rescues in Boston Harbor in the original Point Allerton Lifesaving Station opened in 1889.