New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

America's smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

Featuring the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania, this drive-in has entertained moviegoers for more than half a century.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.