Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.