Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

Yo, Adrian!

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.