San Francisco, California
San Francisco's Cable Car Museum
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
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San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Largs, Scotland
This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.
Hussaini, Pakistan
Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
Praid, Romania
Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.
Healdsburg, California
A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.
Iron Township, Missouri
Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Lichtenhain/Bergbahn, Germany
Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Darmstadt, Germany
1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
New Salem, North Dakota
The world's largest Holstein cow.
San Francisco, California
These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.
La Pera, Spain
Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...
Kaali, Estonia
Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
Seattle, Washington
A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.