An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.