Nordstrand, Germany
The Lorenbahn
A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.
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Nordstrand, Germany
A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.
Martigny, Switzerland
Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.
Dayton, Ohio
You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.
Chester, England
A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.
Paris, France
A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.
Irkutsk, Russia
Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.
Sandown, England
This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.
Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario
The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
San Francisco, California
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
Jodhpur, India
Legend has it a commoner volunteered to be buried alive in the foundation so that the great fortress could be built.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Foynes, Ireland
The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.
Tarpon Springs, Florida
This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."
Brooklyn, New York
Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.
Deming, New Mexico
A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.
Memphis, Tennessee
The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Onsted, Michigan
The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.
Yachats, Oregon
There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Suwon, South Korea
The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.