The oldest independent bottling plant in America was built directly over an ancient spring — and famously rejected Coca-Cola.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The niches over the western entrance of Westminster Abbey honor individuals from the 20th century who gave their lives for their Christian beliefs.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

This ancient spring in central London was featured in a Peter Pan story.

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

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

The purported midpoint in London from which all distances are measured has a tragic love story at its core

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This sanitized yet surreal depiction of a Greek fertility god looks over a square in one of central London’s residential areas.

A showcase of canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.