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 one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

This century-old, family-run bakery specializes in loukoumades, a Greek doughnut once served to ancient Olympians.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

The home of a former Minor League baseball team that beat Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees in 1949.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

The world's only statue dedicated to the greatest Great Dane in comic strip history.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.