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

A southern Swedish island is home to the last ERSTA artillery battery, meant to protect the shoreline during the Cold War.

The oldest Swedish built lighthouse still guides ships through the archipelago.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

The Swedish flag over this small naval fort signals that the nation is at peace.

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

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Send your taste buds to South Asia at a sumptuous Southern dinner party.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.