A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.