The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The most impressive falls in Wensleydale once produced power to weave the uniform of an Italian revolution.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Long before Moo Deng, this 17th-century waterfowl was a cultural sensation.

A less famous, short-lived meeting spot of the Inklings.

This is an amazing but little known tile mosaic mural that used to grace the lobby of an office building in 1958, but now can only be seen from the second floor of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.

The world's most elegant power lines.