Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

An abandoned shipping control tower looks like a satellite perched at the end of a pier.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

This 15th-century Ottoman bridge was modified to keep up with the changing course of the river Erenik.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

Hidden behind an industrial area, this is one of the very few such transporter bridges in existence.

This truck is celebrated as part of the "miracle" that connected this town to the rest of Mexico.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

The longest cutting on the M62 contains some surprises—though it's best to leave the motorway to appreciate them.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.

A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.

1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.