Transportation

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

The rusting relics of Southampton's former luxurious flying boat industry.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.