A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.