At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

China's most famous acrobatics act.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.