Places Gefaehrte Wants to Go

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

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.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.