Flight

A monument tucked within a suburban neighborhood commemorates the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean.

Curated with the cooperation of the passengers and their families, this museum tells the story of the 29 victims and 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.

Dedicated to humankind's achievements in aviation, this Shintō shrine is notable for its Greek-style architecture and collection of aircrafts.

Dedicated to the first flight of an aircraft to be designed and built in Australia.

A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

The departure point for the first return flight across the Atlantic.

A stone memorial marking the location where Scotland's first aeronautical flight landed.

This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.

A statue paying homage to a world-record-setting aviator who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.