The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.