Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

Also known as "Robin Hood's tree," this tree became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down in an act of vandalism.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.