This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

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

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.