There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.