Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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.

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