Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.