Transportation

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

A line number in Amsterdam that will likely never be used again due to its tragic history.

This twisty section of highway in the Himalayan foothills is lined with thousands of small mirrors.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

A mysterious, weather-beaten bus lies on the coast of Harris, enticing the curious to investigate.

Once a gas station, this flightless airplane beside the Old Dixie Highway now houses a barbershop.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

A small museum displays some of the artifacts discovered during a subway station renovation.

An eclectic collection of highly specialized bicycles once used by artisans for their specific needs.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.