This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

California's first suspension bridge.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Rebuilt several decades ago, its striking murals prevent it from being reconsecrated as a church.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.