Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

The unusual stilted beacon is the town's only active lighthouse.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.