An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Packed with gear and memorabilia, this museum chronicles the history of skiing and how its rise shaped New England.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.