Final resting place of one of Africa's most famous conservationists, murdered by bandits.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.