The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.