A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

The magic's in the hole!

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

A catapult rock from Gotland’s 13th-century civil war is still lodged in Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval city wall.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

New York's oldest magic store.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.