An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

This mysterious twin turboprop Grumman G-159 covered in graffiti has spent a decade and a half abandoned.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.