A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.