Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Archaeologists are still unraveling the secrets of the brutal massacre that wiped out this ancient fort.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

This hidden bridge is where local children leave gifts and messages for the island's fay folk.

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.