Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

A stretch of New Hampshire lake water is the only ice runway in the lower 48 states that is FAA-approved.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

A repository of Pasadena history.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.