This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.