Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Its diverse collection of computers and technology spans the ages.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

The deepest metro station in the world.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.