Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Nature's slip and slide.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.