Zeppelin structure

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany--It seems an odd place for a museum celebrating the history and achievements of an aerial innovation, but right on the shores of Lake Constance here is the Zeppelin Museum, an homage to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's airships.

Of course, once you enter the museum, you realize it's not a strange place at all--in fact, the world's first zeppelins were created here, and many, including the most famous of all, the Hindenburg, were based right here in Friedrichshafen.

There were 119 zeppelins built in the first half of the 20th century, and 130 were planned. Today, those German zeppelins are no more, but they live on at this great little museum.

Here, we see a photograph in the museum of the construction and interior structure of the Graf Zeppelin, one of the greatest of the early airships.