These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Berlin's old airport.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.