This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

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

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.