Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.