Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

This abandoned viewing platform has become a monument to unnecessary government spending.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."