The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

One man's stunning attempt at eco-friendly living.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

The second-highest train station in Europe.

Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This may be the smallest length of railway in the United Kingdom.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

Take a ride back in time with a steam locomotive trip through Eritrea’s mountainous countryside.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

A bronze sculpture of a monkey sits outside this factory, which has made an anise-flavored liqueur for over 150 years.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

The skeletal remains of the famous hominid "Lucy" were found at this spot.