Places jacobmunkhammar Wants to Go

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.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

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

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

It's believed a castle existed at this site since the 12th century.

Dozens of musicians have planted trees in this Danish park, and donated songs to go with them.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

A Danish fisherman spent 25 years covering nearly every inch of his home with tens of thousands of shells as a gift to his wife.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.