Trains

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.