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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.