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Thanks to some blunt city planning Dunedin, New Zealand’s residential Baldwin Street has become known as the world’s steepest street, and it certainly seems like if there were a street that was any steeper, it would be a wall. When the city of Dunedin was first...

Where once a railroad line punched through the wilds of London’s Haringey and Islington, a scenic walking path has taken its place and the crumbling, abandoned stations and tunnels are now home to local superstitions, graffiti, and some whimsically unsettling...

There was a point in history when people were still trying to perfect the perfect cell in which to keep that wiliest of creatures: man. This quest for the perfect jail led to some odd, and often inhumane forms of incarceration, some of which still survive.  One such example...

The once candy-coated dreams of a small New Jersey amusement park can still be seen in the ruins of this fantastical fantasy castle.  The Gingerbread Castle was originally a fairy tale themed amusement park located in Hamburg, New Jersey. The castle was designed in 1928 by...

Rushing through a shallow Finnish hollow the Imatrankoski rapids have been a popular tourist attraction for about as long as they have been known, but today, thanks to a massive power plant dam, the rapids are only unleashed according to a show schedule. Formed over 5,000 years...

In its original inception this Russian rail museum was simply an exhibition of Vladamir Lenin’s funeral train and a selection of its regalia, but after being closed for years, the museum has reopened to the general public as an all-encompassing collection covering the...

After traversing a series of dizzying trails that hug the side of Mt. Huang, the path leads right into a rock face and out on to Buxian Bridge which spans the chasm between two giant rock faces. While the bridge was built in 1987, it very deliberately looks as though it was built...

Installed at the entrance to one of the country’s most controversial universities, the sculptural work known as "Praying Hands" lets any visitors know exactly what the college is all about.    The hands were originally built outside of the City of...

While massive, China’s Tianjin Eye has never been a contender for world’s largest observation (or "ferris" as it used to be known) wheel, but thanks to its unique placement, suspended over the Hai River, this iconic attraction is almost even more impressive...

Sitting on the edge of the Oregon coast is what appears to be a gaping sinkhole that never seems to fill despite the unbroken stream of sea water that drains into it, but Thor’s Well as the natural wonder is known, is not bottomless, simply very dangerous.   Also known...