Mountains

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

This medieval footbridge in the Swiss Alps is known to attract cliff-jumping daredevils.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

Inside this Darjeeling museum, you can see a pair of boots that once stood at the top of the world.

A monument commemorating the lives lost when a plane crashed into Mount Macedon in 1948.

The oldest operating roller coaster of its kind, the Montaña Suiza has been thrilling riders since 1928.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.