A museum dedicated to firefighting in a city that was crucial to the modern history of the profession.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

An incredibly durable timepiece glows beneath shoppers' feet.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.