A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The site of Japan's first major environmental disaster.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.