A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

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

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

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.

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.