This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

According to legend, this is the burial place of a mythical three-legged death omen horse.

Piran’s oldest square is laden with history and a beautiful 18th-century reservoir.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

In between two buildings in Ljubljana, medieval tunnel to nowhere.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

An unmistakable facial pareidolia in the Julian Alps also includes a fantastic tale.

Erected in memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born close to this spot, this statue commemorates the author and his famous detective.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.