Smallest subway

This item appears on page 88 of the March 2009 issue.

 The tiny alpine town of Serfaus, Austria, is home to the world’s smallest subway, the Dorfbahn. This 1,280-meter (about eight-tenths of a mile) underground funicular holds 270 people and is free to use. It was built in 1985 to transport skiers from a parking area at one end of the pedestrian-only village to the ski lifts at the other end.