A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

This freewheeling amusement ride is the last of its kind.

This Welsh dockyard was the site of the not-so-secret construction of the Millennium Falcon for the original Star Wars trilogy.

This gilded emblem was once stolen by a Cookie Monster impostor, who demanded a charitable ransom for its return.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.

For many years, the river that Julius Caeser led his army across into Italy was lost until re-identified.

Order your phở stir-fried, sans soup.

Don’t miss the local staple of rice vermicelli with charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork belly.

This very ornate Victorian gateway seems completely out of place in the modern industrial city of Warrington.

A small stone monument marks the spot on Stavely Road where the first of hundreds of missiles touched down during World War II.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

The arch marks the beginning of the road for northbound travelers.

This time-honored eatery near Hoàn Kiếm Lake serves the classic pairing of rice vermicelli soup and savory sticky rice.

An outdoor display of military missiles developed at Point Mugu Naval Base.

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.